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A search for Planetary Nebulae around hot white dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

K. Werner
Affiliation:
1Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Germany
K. Bagschik
Affiliation:
2Sternwarte Bonn, Germany
T. Rauch
Affiliation:
1Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Germany
R. Napiwotzki
Affiliation:
3Dr.-Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Germany

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Time scales for post-AGB stellar evolution are still unclear. In order to study them it is useful to look for old PNe and compare nebula expansion and stellar evolutionary ages. We have selected very hot members from different white dwarf sub-classes. Many of them are objects recently discovered in the Hamburg-Schmidt Survey (Hagen et al. 1995). The sample includes three peculiar objects whose spectra show signatures of an extremely hot wind (≈ 106 K), namely absorption lines of ultra-high ionized metals, e.g. O VIII (Werner et al. 1995). A complete list is given in the table below. The search was performed by direct Hα narrow band imaging using a wide angle (20′ × 20′) CCD camera (WWFPP) attached to the Calar Alto 1.23m telescope (28.9.-3.10.1995).

Type
VI. From Planetary Nebulae to White Dwarfs
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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