Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-04-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
PASP, in press; 21 pages
Scientific paper
10.1086/341691
We construct a speculative scenario for the evolution of Wolf-Rayet central stars of planetary nebula. It is clear from the latest infra-red observations that a new perspective has to be adopted: the simultaneous presence of carbon- and oxygen-rich dust (double dust chemistry), while being a rare phenomenon for H-rich central stars, is found around the vast majority of cool Wolf-Rayet central stars. This correlation between Wolf-Rayet characteristics and double dust chemistry points to a common mechanism. Within the binary evolution framework established by Soker, two scenarios are proposed, responsible for the majority (80-85%) and minority (15-20%) of Wolf-Rayet central stars. In the first scenario, proposed here for the first time, a low mass main sequence star, brown dwarf or planet spirals into the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) star inducing extra mixing, hence a chemistry change, and terminating the AGB evolution. In the second scenario, previously proposed, a close binary companion is responsible for the formation of a disk around either the binary or the companion. This long-lived disk harbors the O-rich dust.
de Marco Orsola
Soker Noam
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