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Preplanetary Nebulae: An HST Imaging Survey and a New Morphological Classification System
Raghvendra Sahai, Mark Morris, Carmen Sánchez Contreras +1
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), we have carried out a survey of candidate preplanetary nebulae (PPNs). We report here our discoveries of objects having well-resolved geomet…
The LMC's Top 250: Classification of the Most Luminous Compact 8 micron Sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Joel H. Kastner, Stephen L. Thorndike, Paul A. Romanczyk +4
To ascertain the nature of the brightest compact mid-infrared sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), we have applied an updated version of the Buchanan et al. (2006) 2MASS-MS…
Adaptive Optics Imaging of IRAS 18276-1431: a bipolar pre-planetary nebula with circumstellar "searchlight beams" and "arcs"
C. Sanchez Contreras, D. Le Mignant, R. Sahai +2
We present high-angular resolution images of the post-AGB nebula IRAS18276-1431 (also known as OH17.7-2.0) obtained with the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) system in its Natural Guid…
A Massive Bipolar Outflow and a Dusty Torus with Large Grains in the Pre-Planetary Nebula IRAS 22036+5306
R. Sahai, K. Young, N. A. Patel +2
We report high angular-resolution (~1") CO J=3--2 interferometric mapping, using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), of IRAS22036+5306 (I22036), a bipolar pre-planetary nebula (PPN) wit…
X-ray emission from Planetary Nebulae. I. Spherically symmetric numerical simulations
Matthias Stute, Raghvendra Sahai
(abridged) The interaction of a fast wind with a spherical Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) wind is thought to be the basic mechanism for shaping Pre-Planetary Nebulae (PPN) and later…