On the discovery of an enormous ionized halo around the hot DO white dwarf PG1034+001

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2004-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402036v1

Astron.Astrophys. 417 (2004) 647-650

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20035853

Very recently, the discovery of the largest known planetary nebula on the sky surrounding the DO white dwarf PG1034+001 with an apparent diameter of about 2 degrees, corresponding to a linear diameter of 3.5 - 7.0 pc at the likely distance of 100 - 200 pc, has been reported by Hewett et al. (2003). A careful inspection of available sky survey data has now shown that this planetary nebula, Hewett 1, is surrounded by an elliptical emission shell with an apparent diameter of 6 times 9 degrees (16.2 +6.1/-4.5 times 24.3 +9.1/-6.8 pc at d = 155 +58/-43 pc. A further emission structure, detected northeast of the central star may indicate another shell with a size of 10 times 16 degr. From presently available observational data we do not have indications whether the emission arises from material which was ejected from PG1034+001 or from ionized ambient ISM. Improved proper motion data combined with radial velocity and distance from the literature have enabled us to derive a Galactic orbit for the central star PG1034+001. Its thin disk orbit and the morphology of the first halo suggest that the nebula is in an advanced stage of interaction with the interstellar medium.

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