HST Measurements of the Expansion of NGC 6543: Parallax Distance and Nebular Evolution

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1999-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907313v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in AJ. 18 pages. 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/301091

The optical expansion parallax of NGC 6543 has been detected and measured using two epochs of HST images separated by a time baseline of only three years. We have utilized three separate methods of deriving the angular expansion of bright fiducials, the results of which are in excellent agreement. We combine our angular expansion estimates with spectroscopically obtained expansion velocities to derive a distance to NGC 6543 of 1001$\pm$269 pc. The deduced kinematic age of the inner bright core of the nebula is 1039$\pm$259 years; however, the kinematic age of the polar caps that surround the core is larger - perhaps the result of deceleration or earlier mass ejection. The morphology and expansion patterns of NGC 6543 provide insight into a complex history of axisymmetric, interacting stellar mass ejections.

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