Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
5 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the conference "Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae V", eds. Zijlstra, et al., edi
Scientific paper
Proto-planetary nebulae (pPN) and planetary nebulae (PN) seem to be formed by interacting winds from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. The observational issue that most pPN are bipolar but most older PN are elliptical is addressed. We present 2.5D hydrodynamical numerical simulations of episodic cooling interacting winds to investigate the long term evolution of PN morphologies. We track wind acceleration, decrease in mass-loss and episodic change in wind geometry from spherical (AGB) to collimated (pPN) and back to spherical again (PN). This outflow sequence is found to produce realistic PN dynamics and morphological histories. Effects from different AGB distributions and jet duty cycles are also investigated.
Balick Bruce
Blackman Eric G.
de Marco Orsola
Frank Adam
Huarte Espinosa Martin
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