Hunting for binary central stars of planetary nebulae: exploiting archival data

Aller, A.; Vučković, Maja; Lillo-Box, Jorge; Miranda, Luis F.; Jones, D.; Boffin, Henri M. J.
Bibliographical reference

Planetary Nebulae: Multi-Wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 323, pp. 378-379

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10
2017
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6
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1
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Description
The detection of new binary central stars of planetary nebulae is crucial to definitively determine the importance of binary interactions in the nebular morphology. In this context, we are working on a project that aims to increase the low number of binary central stars detected so far. For that, we are first analyzing public archival data in order to discover potential candidates of binary central stars. These candidates will be subsequently followed-up in order to confirm and characterize them. Here we present our ongoing search and some preliminary results.