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Kinematical study of the wind-blown bubble NGC 6888

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Arturo Manchado
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, E-38200, Tenerife, Spain
Guillermo García-Segura
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía-UNAM, Apdo Postal 877, Ensenada, 22800 Baja California, México
You-Hua Chu
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Abstract

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A detailed kinematical analysis of wind-blown bubble ring nebula NGC 6888 swept-up by the wind of the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136, combining high resolution echelle [O III] spectra, high resolution HST imaging and high resolution ground base imaging, is presented. The kinematics is compared to new theoretical models for the dynamics of WR bubbles based on a three-winds scenario. The actual visible nebula is formed by the red supergiant wind swept-up by the fast WR wind. We conclude that the intringuing filamentary morphology, mainly formed by clumps, tails and ripples are explained by the actuation of Vishniac instabilities on the swept-up shell during the expansion of a red supergiant wind, as predicted by the gas dynamical simulations. The kinematics confirm that NGC 6888 is actually on a breakout process at the NW side, as derived from the blowouts. The blowouts are formed by shocked gas which is directly interacting with the cavity formed by the main sequence wind. The fact that these blowouts are bounded by shocks suggests that the cooling is efficient in a main sequence bubble during the evolution.

Type
Part 3. Interaction of Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars with their environment: colliding winds and ring nebulae
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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