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Possible Proto-Planetary Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Parthasarathy*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Astrophysics

Abstract

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IRAS data for high-galactic-latitude F supergiants, a few luminous F-G stars, and a few peculiar (forbidden) emission-line stars reveal they have dust shells with characteristics similar to those observed in planetary nebulae. The objects described here appear to have experienced severe mass loss in the recent past on the AGB. These stars are most likely post-AGB stars or evolving from the tip of AGB towards the left in the H-R diagram and may be described as possible proto-planetary nebulae. From the IRAS data we find ten additional possible proto-planetary nebulae. From the IRAS data of HD 56126, -53° 5072, HD 168625 and -59° 6723 the luminosities, temperatures and masses of the dust shells are derived. HD 56126 (F5I), HD 168625 (B8Iae), and -59° 6723 (B8Iae) appear to be in an evolutionary stage (post-AGB) similar to that of HD 161796 and HR 4049.

Type
5. Chromospheres, Winds and Mass Loss
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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