Bibcode
Mendez, R. H.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Groth, H. G.; Husfeld, D.; Herrero, A.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 197, no. 1-2, May 1988, p. L25-L28. Research supported by the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik.
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1988
Citations
64
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54
Description
The very high surface gravity and low temperature of PHL 932, a hot
subluminous star surrounded by a planetary nebula, imply that it cannot
be a post-AGB star. It thus becomes the second object of this kind
discovered spectroscopically. The spectroscopic evidence is presented,
and some properties of the nebulae around these two stars are inferred.
It is suggested that these two nonpostasymptotic giant branch planetary
nebulae can only be understood as a consequence of a common-envelope
phase in the evolution of close binary systems on the first red giant
branch. This does not mean that both objects have to be close binary
systems, because the common-envelope episode may have ended in both
cases with the coalescence of the two components into a single star. In
a final section, some comments are made about possible ways of searching
for additional nonpostasymptotic giant branch central stars of planetary
nebulae.