5 papers
Planetary Nebulae
Orsola De Marco, Isabel Aleman, Stavros Akras
Planetary nebulae are formed by the matter ejected by low-to-intermediate mass stars (~0.8-8 times the mass of the Sun) towards the end of their lives. As hydrogen and then helium…
Detection of CO ice in the planetary nebula NGC 6302
Charmi Bhatt, Simon W. Cao, Jan Cami +20
Using JWST/MIRI observations, we report the detection of CO ice in the dusty torus of the planetary nebula NGC 6302, an environment generally considered hostile to fragile mole…
Dissecting NGC 3132: Tracing the mass-loss history of the southern ring planetary nebula
K. Bouvis, S. Akras, H. Monteiro +7
Central to our understanding of stellar evolution and its impact on processes in our Galaxy and across the Universe is the study of mass loss. While the general framework is well e…
Nickel- and iron-rich clumps in planetary nebulae: New discoveries and emission-line diagnostics
K. Bouvis, S. Akras, H. Monteiro +7
Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) offers a distinct advantage for studying extended sources by enabling spatially resolved emission maps for several emission lines without the need…
Integral field spectroscopy of the planetary nebula NGC 3242 and the puzzling nature of its low ionization structures
L. Konstantinou, S. Akras, J. Garcia-Rojas +7
The physico-chemical properties of the planetary nebula (PN) NGC 3242 are investigated in both 1D and 2D, using Integral Field Unit (IFU) data. This PN has a complex morphology wit…