Radio Cores of Bipolar Nebulae: Search for Collimated Winds

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2003-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310433v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae III, eds. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, N.Soker and B. Balick (ASP Conf

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We present results of our search for collimated ionized winds in bipolar nebulae using the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). Our search is motivated by the discovery of an ionized jet in the bipolar nebula M 2-9 (Lim & Kwok 2003) that may be responsible for sculpting the nebula's mirror-symmetric structure. To determine if such jets are a common feature of bipolar nebulae, we searched for optically-thick radio cores - a characteristic signature of ionized jets - in 11 northern nebulae with the VLA at 1.3 cm and 0.7 cm, and in 5 southern nebulae with the ATCA at 6 cm and 3.6 cm. Two northern objects, 19W32 and M 1-91, and two southern objects, He2-84 and and Mz 3, exhibit a compact radio core with a rising spectrum consistent with an ionized jet. Th 2-B exhibits a steeply falling spectrum characteristic of nonthermal radio emission. Here we present a preliminary analysis of these five radio cores and discuss the implications of our results.

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