Hydrodynamics of Antisymmetric Nebulae

Authors
Publication date 2004
Host editors
  • M. Meixner
  • J.H. Kastner
  • B. Balick
  • N. Soker
Book title Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae III: Winds, Structure and the Thunderbird
Volume | Issue number 313
Pages (from-to) 419
Publisher San Francisco: ASP
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract Balick's `generalized interacting stellar winds' model posits that the bipolar shape of most PNe is due to the interaction between a very fast tenuous outflow, and a disk-shaped denser atmosphere left over from an earlier slow phase of mass loss. Analytical and numerical work shows that this mechanism can explain cylindrically symmetric nebulae. However, many circumstellar nebulae have a `point-symmetric' shape. I demonstrate that these can be easily reproduced by a two-wind model in which the confining disk is warped.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2004ASPC..313..419I&db_key=AST&high=3ed1d2904230515
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