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Polarimetry of R Aqr and PN M2-9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Silvana G. Navarro
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Universidad de Guadalajara email: [email protected]
Laurence Sabin
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Universidad de Guadalajara email: [email protected]
Julio Ramírez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, email: [email protected]
David Hiriart
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The bipolar or more complex morphology observed in planetary nebulae have been explained by two principal hypothesis: by the existence of a companion and an accreting disk or by the effects of magnetic field, (or a combination of both). Symbiotics are binary systems and some of them show morphologies similar to those observed on planetary nebulae. This fact could support the binary hypothesis for PNe. We have therefore performed polarimetric observations of symbiotic systems and some planetary nebulae in order, first to detect linear polarisation with POLIMA at the San Pedro Mártir observatory, and ultimately to prove the existence and physical properties of those disks. We present here the first results of a project dedicated to the analysis of the polarisation observed in evolved objects starting with the PN M2-9 and R Aqr.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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