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The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST
| العنوان: | The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST |
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| المؤلفون: | De Marco, Orsola, Akashi, Muhammad, Akras, Stavros, Alcolea, Javier, Aleman, Isabel, Amram, Philippe, Balick, Bruce, De Beck, Elvire, Blackman, Eric G., Boffin, Henri M. J., Boumis, Panos, Bublitz, Jesse, Bucciarelli, Beatrice, Bujarrabal, Valentin, Cami, Jan, Chornay, Nicholas, Chu, You-Hua, Corradi, Romano L. M., Frank, Adam, Garcia-Segura, Guillermo, Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Garcia-Rojas, Jorge, Gomez-Llanos, Veronica, Goncalves, Denise R., Guerrero, Martin A., Jones, David, Karakas, Amanda I., Kastner, Joel H., Kwok, Sun, Lykou, Foteini, Manchado, Arturo, Matsuura, Mikako, McDonald, Iain, Monreal-Ibero, Ana, Monteiro, Hektor, Baez, Paula Moraga, Morisset, Christophe, Miszalski, Brent, Mohamed, Shazrene S., Montez Jr., Rodolfo, Nordhaus, Jason, de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes, Osborn, Zara, Otsuka, Masaaki, Parker, Quentin A., Peeters, Els, Quint, Bruno C., Quintana-Lacaci, Guillermo, Redman, Matt, Ruiter, Ashley J., Sabin, Laurence, Contreras, Carmen Sanchez, Santander-Garcia, Miguel, Seitenzahl, Ivo, Sahai, Raghvendra, Soker, Noam, Speck, Angela K., Stanghellini, Letizia, Steffen, Wolfgang, Toala, Jesus A., Ueta, Toshiya, Van de Steene, Griet, Villaver, Eva, Ventura, Paolo, Vlemmings, Wouter, Walsh, Jeremy R., Wesson, Roger, van Winckel, Hans, Zijlstra, Albert A. |
| المصدر: | Nature Astronomy, 2022, Vol. 6, p. 1421 |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| الوصف: | Planetary nebulae (PNe), the ejected envelopes of red giant stars, provide us with a history of the last, mass-losing phases of 90 percent of stars initially more massive than the Sun. Here, we analyse James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observation (ERO) images of the PN NGC3132. A structured, extended H2 halo surrounding an ionised central bubble is imprinted with spiral structures, likely shaped by a low-mass companion orbiting the central star at 40-60 AU. The images also reveal a mid-IR excess at the central star interpreted as a dusty disk, indicative of an interaction with another, closer companion. Including the previously known, A-type visual companion, the progenitor of the NGC3132 PN must have been at least a stellar quartet. The JWST images allow us to generate a model of the illumination, ionisation and hydrodynamics of the molecular halo, demonstrating the power of JWST to investigate complex stellar outflows. Further, new measurements of the A-type visual companion allow us to derive the value for the mass of the progenitor of a central star to date with excellent precision: 2.86+/-0.06 Mo. These results serve as path finders for future JWST observations of PNe providing unique insight into fundamental astrophysical processes including colliding winds, and binary star interactions, with implications for supernovae and gravitational wave systems. Comment: 32 pages, 5 figures for the main article. 12 pages 8 figures for the supplementary material |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02775 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2301.02775 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| الوصف غير متاح. |