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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
We study the role of radiatively driven winds in the formation of PNe. The modulation of these winds due to stellar rotation, and Von Zeipel gravity darkening, are both considered. Rotation produces a wind that is faster at the poles but denser at the equator. The Von Zeipel effect, which states that the stellar flux is proportional to the effective surface gravity, results in the inverse density distribution, giving a wind that is both faster and denser at the poles. Both these effects produce bipolar nebulae for large rotational velocities of the star.