Spatio-kinematical modelling

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Shaping of nebulae around binary stars

PIs: Miguel Santander-Garcia, David Jones

Team: Romano Corradi, Antonio Mampaso, Myf Lloyd, Amy Tyndall

Aim: Understanding the origin of complexity in nebulae shaping and its link with binarity through spatio-kinematical modelling of nebulae around binary stars

Telescope/Instrument: INT+WFC, HST+WFPC2 (mostly from literature), VLT/UVES, SPM/MES, VLT/ARGUS, WHT+GHAFAS, NTT+3DNTT (in the future)

Technique: Combining high-resolution images with Longslit/Integral field spectroscopy/2D Fabry-Perot spectroscopy (currently) to track the mass-loss history (3-D morphology + 3-D velocity field)

Run(s) dates (or proposal deadline): ongoing

Target list(s): A sample of confirmed or suspected symbiotic Miras (Hen 2-104, Hen 2-147, R Aqr, Mz 3), novae (V458 Vul) and PN with confirmed/suspected binary central stars (A14, WeBo-1, G126.6+1.3)

Publications:

• Mz 3: Dissecting the Ant, Santander-García, M.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Balick, B. & Mampaso, A., 2004, A&A, 426, 185

• HST and VLT observations of the symbiotic star Hen 2-147. Its nebular dynamics, its Mira variable and its distance, Santander-García, M.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Whitelock, P. A.; Munari, U.; Mampaso, A.; Marang, F.; Boffi, F. & Livio, M., A&A, 2007, 465, 481

• Proof of polar ejection from the close-binary core of the planetary nebula Abell 63, Mitchell, Deborah L.; Pollacco, Don; O'Brien, T. J.; Bryce, M.; López, J. A.; Meaburn, J. & Vaytet, N. M. H., 2007, MNRAS, 374, 1404

• Hen 2-104: a close-up look at the Southern Crab, Santander-García, M.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Mampaso, A.; Morisset, C.; Munari, U.; Schirmer, M.; Balick, B. & Livio, M., A&A, 485, 117

• High-speed knots in the hourglass shaped planetary nebula Hubble 12, Vaytet, N. M. H.; Rushton, A. P.; Lloyd, M.; López, J. A.; Meaburn, J.; O'Brien, T. J.; Mitchell, D. L.; Pollacco, D., Accepted for publication in MNRAS

• Kinematics of the ring-like nebula SuWt 2, Jones, D.; Lloyd, M.; Mitchell, D. L.; Pollacco, D; O'Brien, T. J. & Vaytet, N. M. H., Accepted for publication in MNRAS

• The kinematics of the quadrupolar nebula M1-75 and the identification of its central star, M. Santander-García, P. Rodríguez-Gil, O. Hernandez, R. L. M. Corradi, D. Jones, C. Giammanco, J. E. Beckman, C. Carignan, K. Fathi, M. M. Rubio-Díez, F. Jiménez-Luján, C. R. Benn, Accepted for publication in A&A

• Abell 41: shaping of a planetary nebula by a binary central star?, Jones, D.; Lloyd, M; Santander-García, M.; López, J.A.; Meaburn, J.; Mitchell, D.L.; O'Brien, T.J.; Pollacco, D.L.; Rubio-Díez, M.M. & Vaytet, N.M.H., Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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