Close binary central stars and the abundance discrepancy - new extreme objects
Abstract
Recent work (Corradi et al. 2015, Jones et al. 2016) has shown that the phenomenon of extreme abundance discrepancies, where recombination line abundances exceed collisionally excited line abundances by factors of 10 or more, seem to be strongly associated with planetary nebulae with close binary central stars. To further investigate, we have obtained spectra of a sample of nebulae with known close binary central stars, using FORS2 on the VLT, and we have discovered several new extreme abundance discrepancy objects. We did not find any non-extreme discrepancies, suggesting that a very high fraction of nebulae with close binary central stars also have an extreme abundance discrepancy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.02215,
title = {Close binary central stars and the abundance discrepancy - new extreme objects},
author = {R. Wesson and D. Jones and J. García-Rojas and R. L. M. Corradi and H. M. J. Boffin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02215},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages. To appear in proceedings of IAU symposium 323 (Planetary nebulae: multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution)