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Investigating the formation of planetary nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2006

L. Cerrigone
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA Present address: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA, USA
J. L. Hora
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
G. Umana
Affiliation:
INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Catania, Italy
C. Trigilio
Affiliation:
INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Catania, Italy
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Abstract

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The formation of planetary nebulae is a poorly understood phase of stellar evolution. In particular it is still not clear what mechanism leads to the complicated morphologies observed in such sources. We have started a systematic study of objects in transition from post-AGB to planetary nebula, and in this poster we show some preliminary results.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
© 2006 International Astronomical Union