scholarly journals Carbon dust in the evolved born-again planetary nebulae A 30 and A 78

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (1) ◽  
pp. 1543-1556
Author(s):  
J A Toalá ◽  
P Jiménez-Hernández ◽  
J B Rodríguez-González ◽  
S Estrada-Dorado ◽  
M A Guerrero ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT We present an infrared (IR) characterization of the born-again planetary nebulae (PNe) A 30 and A 78 using IR images and spectra. We demonstrate that the carbon-rich dust in A 30 and A 78 is spatially coincident with the H-poor ejecta and coexists with hot X-ray-emitting gas up to distances of 50 arcsec from the central stars of PNe (CSPNe). Dust forms immediately after the born-again event and survives for 1000 yr in the harsh environment around the CSPN as it is destroyed and pushed away by radiation pressure and dragged by hydrodynamical effects. Spitzer IRS spectral maps showed that the broad spectral features at 6.4 and 8.0 μm, attributed to amorphous carbon formed in H-deficient environments, are associated with the disrupted disc around their CSPN, providing an optimal environment for charge exchange reactions with the stellar wind that produces the soft X-ray emission of these sources. Nebular and dust properties are modelled for A 30 with cloudy taking into account different carbonaceous dust species. Our models predict dust temperatures in the 40–230 K range, five times lower than predicted by previous works. Gas and dust masses for the born-again ejecta in A 30 are estimated to be $M_\mathrm{gas}=4.41^{+0.55}_{-0.14}\times 10^{-3}$ M⊙ and $M_\mathrm{dust}=3.20^{+3.21}_{-2.06}\times 10^{-3}$ M⊙, which can be used to estimate a total ejected mass and mass-loss rate for the born-again event of $7.61^{+3.76}_{-2.20}\times 10^{-3}$ M⊙ and $\dot{M}=(5{\!-\!}60)\times 10^{-5}$ M⊙ yr−1, respectively. Taking into account the carbon trapped into dust grains, we estimate that the C/O mass ratio of the H-poor ejecta of A 30 is larger than 1, which favours the very late thermal pulse model over the alternate hypothesis of a nova-like event.

2020 ◽  
Vol 635 ◽  
pp. A173 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Krtička ◽  
J. Kubát ◽  
I. Krtičková

Context. Fast line-driven stellar winds play an important role in the evolution of planetary nebulae, even though they are relatively weak. Aims. We provide global (unified) hot star wind models of central stars of planetary nebulae. The models predict wind structure including the mass-loss rates, terminal velocities, and emergent fluxes from basic stellar parameters. Methods. We applied our wind code for parameters corresponding to evolutionary stages between the asymptotic giant branch and white dwarf phases for a star with a final mass of 0.569 M⊙. We study the influence of metallicity and wind inhomogeneities (clumping) on the wind properties. Results. Line-driven winds appear very early after the star leaves the asymptotic giant branch (at the latest for Teff ≈ 10 kK) and fade away at the white dwarf cooling track (below Teff = 105 kK). Their mass-loss rate mostly scales with the stellar luminosity and, consequently, the mass-loss rate only varies slightly during the transition from the red to the blue part of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. There are the following two exceptions to the monotonic behavior: a bistability jump at around 20 kK, where the mass-loss rate decreases by a factor of a few (during evolution) due to a change in iron ionization, and an additional maximum at about Teff = 40−50 kK. On the other hand, the terminal velocity increases from about a few hundreds of km s−1 to a few thousands of km s−1 during the transition as a result of stellar radius decrease. The wind terminal velocity also significantly increases at the bistability jump. Derived wind parameters reasonably agree with observations. The effect of clumping is stronger at the hot side of the bistability jump than at the cool side. Conclusions. Derived fits to wind parameters can be used in evolutionary models and in studies of planetary nebula formation. A predicted bistability jump in mass-loss rates can cause the appearance of an additional shell of planetary nebula.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Mario Perinotto ◽  
Piero Benvenuti ◽  
Carla Cacciari

AbstractFrom a high resolution spectrum taken with IUE, the central star of the planetary nebula IC 2149 is found to exibit a wind with edge velocity of 1440 ± 100 km s-1. Our preliminary evaluation of the associated mass loss rate gives 10-8 M0 yr-1. Other planetary nebulae nuclei are studied with low resolution IUE spectra and indications are found of mass loss rates consistent with the above value.


1983 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Perinotto

Stellar winds have been revealed in a large fraction of central stars of planetary nebulae from P Cygni profiles observed with the IUE satellite. The relevant lines are essentially the resonance lines NV λ 1240, Si IV λ 1397, CIV λ 1549 and the subordinate lines OIV∗ λ 1342, 0V∗ λ 1371, NIV∗ λ 1579. Edge velocities are of the order of 1000-3000 km s−1, similar to the case of population I O stars. Detailed determinations of the mass loss rate have been performed for NGC 6543, NGC 2371, IC 2149 and IC 3568 with values between 4.10−9 to 7. 10−7 Mo yr−1. The accuracy of these determinations is not well known. It is however clear from the variety of observed profiles in these and in several other objects that properties of the winds (ionization structure, etc.) varies considerably from object to object and that very likely the mass loss rate will span over a large interval. Some possible consequences of these winds are discussed.


1989 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 543-544
Author(s):  
M. Schmidt-Voigt

The relation between nebular excitation E(He II λ4686/Hβ-ratio) and absolute visual magnitude of the central star (CS) is compared with hydrodynamical models of planetary nebulae (PNe) from Schmidt-Voigt and Köppen (Astron. Astrophys., 174, 211 and 223) (see figure below, data from D. Schönberner, Astron. Astrophys., 169, 189). Models marked by drawn lines have a 0.644 M⊙ CS following a Schönberner track, an initially expelled PN of 0.1 M⊙, and different mass loss rates of the precursor star on the AGB, described by the Reimers parameter η;η = 1 corresponds to a mass loss rate of 1.55 × 10−6M⊙ α−1 the dashed line model has a higher initially expelled mass (0.3 M⊙), the dash-dotted line model a CS of 0.6 M⊙ which evolves more slowly. Model numbers refer to the above cited studies. Since MV increases with evolutionary time, the MV axis represents a (highly) nonlinear time axis: for MV < 4 the CS heats up towards its temperature maximum and the PN is optically thin. Differences for high excitation nebulae are most probably due to different helium abundances. When the rate of ionizing photons decreases as the nuclear energy sources extinguish (MV > 4), the excitation may decline, depending on the density in the nebula. For the so called “accreting models” (M > 10−6M⊙ α−1) the mass accretion from the AGB wind determines the density hence nebular excitation. For an AGB mass loss rate M < 10−5M⊙α−1 the numerical results approximately fit an exponential law E= E0exp (-M⊙) with E0 ≊ 1.1 and M⊙ ≊ 6.1 × 10−6M⊙ α−1. From the spread of the observed E(MV = 4) we conclude a mean AGB mass loss rate of 6.+3.3−2.3 10−6M⊙ α−1 within 1σ error bars. Obviously the model 11 reproduces the data best since most of the observed objects are found in the dark shadowed regions of the histogram. This is totally consistent with our previous results (cited above). The colliding-wind models, having no initially PN, behave quite similar as model 11.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-367
Author(s):  
S.D. Van Dyk ◽  
M.J. Montes ◽  
K.W. Weiler ◽  
R.A. Sramek ◽  
N. Panagia

The radio emission from supernovae provides a direct probe of a supernova’s circumstellar environment, which presumably was established by mass-loss episodes in the late stages of the progenitor’s presupernova evolution. The observed synchrotron emission is generated by the SN shock interacting with the relatively high-density circumstellar medium which has been fully ionized and heated by the initial UV/X-ray flash. The study of radio supernovae therefore provides many clues to and constraints on stellar evolution. We will present the recent results on several cases, including SN 1980K, whose recent abrupt decline provides us with a stringent constraint on the progenitor’s initial mass; SN 1993J, for which the profile of the wind matter supports the picture of the progenitor’s evolution in an interacting binary system; and SN 1979C, where a clear change in presupernova mass-loss rate occurred about 104 years before explosion. Other examples, such as SNe 19941 and 1996cb, will also be discussed.


1997 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 214-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail M. Conway ◽  
You-Hua Chu

X-ray emission from planetary nebulae (PNe) may originate from two sources: central stars which are 100,000–200,000 K will emit soft X-rays, and shocked fast stellar winds reaching 106–107 K will emit harder X-rays. The former are point sources, while the shocked winds are expected to be extended sources emitting continuously out to the inner wall of the visible nebular shell (Weaver et al. 1977; Wrigge & Wendker 1996).


2019 ◽  
Vol 486 (4) ◽  
pp. 4671-4685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wageesh Mishra ◽  
Nandita Srivastava ◽  
Yuming Wang ◽  
Zavkiddin Mirtoshev ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Similar to the Sun, other stars shed mass and magnetic flux via ubiquitous quasi-steady wind and episodic stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We investigate the mass loss rate via solar wind and CMEs as a function of solar magnetic variability represented in terms of sunspot number and solar X-ray background luminosity. We estimate the contribution of CMEs to the total solar wind mass flux in the ecliptic and beyond, and its variation over different phases of the solar activity cycles. The study exploits the number of sunspots observed, coronagraphic observations of CMEs near the Sun by SOHO/LASCO, in situ observations of the solar wind at 1 AU by WIND, and GOES X-ray flux during solar cycles 23 and 24. We note that the X-ray background luminosity, occurrence rate of CMEs and ICMEs, solar wind mass flux, and associated mass loss rates from the Sun do not decrease as strongly as the sunspot number from the maximum of solar cycle 23 to the next maximum. Our study confirms a true physical increase in CME activity relative to the sunspot number in cycle 24. We show that the CME occurrence rate and associated mass loss rate can be better predicted by X-ray background luminosity than the sunspot number. The solar wind mass loss rate which is an order of magnitude more than the CME mass loss rate shows no obvious dependency on cyclic variation in sunspot number and solar X-ray background luminosity. These results have implications for the study of solar-type stars.


2012 ◽  
Vol 727-728 ◽  
pp. 1473-1478
Author(s):  
Mariaugusta Ferreira Mota ◽  
Fabricio Machado ◽  
Meiry Glaúcia Freire Rodrigues

This work presents an experimental study focusing on the preparation and characterization of modified natural green clay-mud with quaternary ammonium salts of chloride and alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride (Dodigen) and dimethyl stearyl ammonium chloride (Praepagen). X ray Diffraction (XRD), infrared spectroscopy (IR) and expansion tests (adsorption capacity and Foster swelling) measurements were performed in order to evaluate the performance of the ion exchange reactions and the degree of affinity with oil products. It is observed an increasing in the XRD basal spacing of the modified clays (1.96 nm and 2.25 nm for Praepagen and Dodigen salts, respectively) in comparison to the observed value (1.56 nm) for the natural clay. The IR results showed that salts were successfully incorporated to natural clay structure. Based on the expansion tests the organoclays presented the best efficiency independent on the kind of solvent used in comparison with the natural clay performance.


2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S283) ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Christer Sandin ◽  
Matthias Steffen ◽  
Ralf Jacob ◽  
Detlef Schönberner ◽  
Ute Rühling ◽  
...  

AbstractX-ray observations of young Planetary Nebulæ (PNe) have revealed diffuse emission in extended regions around both H-rich and H-deficient central stars. In order to also reproduce physical properties of H-deficient objects, we have, at first, extended our time-dependent radiation-hydrodynamic models with heat conduction for such conditions. Here we present some of the important physical concepts, which determine how and when a hot wind-blown bubble forms. In this study we have had to consider the, largely unknown, evolution of the CSPN, the slow (AGB) wind, the fast hot-CSPN wind, and the chemical composition. The main conclusion of our work is that heat conduction is needed to explain X-ray properties of wind-blown bubbles also in H-deficient objects.


Galaxies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Martín A. Guerrero

Planetary nebulae (PNe) were expected to be filled with hot pressurized gas driving their expansion. ROSAT hinted at the presence of diffuse X-ray emission from these hot bubbles and detected the first sources of hard X-ray emission from their central stars, but it was not until the advent of Chandra and XMM-Newton that we became able to study in detail their occurrence and physical properties. Here I review the progress in the X-ray observations of PNe since the first WORKshop for PLAnetary Nebulae observationS (WORKPLANS) and present the perspective for future X-ray missions with particular emphasis on eROSITA.


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