Discovery of an OVI Emitting Nebula around the Hot White Dwarf KPD 0005+5106

Details Discovery of an OVI Emitting Nebula around the Hot White Dwarf KPD 0005+5106 Discovery of an OVI Emitting Nebula around the Hot White Dwarf KPD 0005+5106

2004-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404421v1

Astrophys.J. 606 (2004) L143-L146

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in ApJL, 11 pages including 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/421397

A survey of diffuse interstellar sight lines observed with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer has led to the serendipitous discovery of a high-ionization nebula around the hot white dwarf KPD 0005+5106. The nebula has an OVI 1032A surface brightness of up to 25,000 photons/s/cm^2/sr, making it the brightest region of extended OVI emission in our survey. Photoionization models using the incident white dwarf continuum successfully reproduce the observed OVI intensity. The OVI emission arises in the highly ionized inner region of a planetary nebula around KPD 0005+5106. This newly discovered nebula may be one member of a class of high-ionization planetary nebulae that are difficult to detect in the optical, but which can be easily identified in the ultraviolet.

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