The binary central stars of planetary nebulae
Abstract
It is now clear that central star binarity plays a key role in the formation and evolution of planetary nebulae, with a significant fraction playing host to close-binary central stars which have survived one or more common envelope episodes. Recent studies of these systems have revealed many surprises which place important constraints on the common envelope - a critical phase in the formation of a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the cosmologically important supernovae type ia and other transient phenomena which will be detected by next-generation facilities, like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the space-based gravitational wave detector the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.10782,
title = {The binary central stars of planetary nebulae},
author = {David Jones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10782},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16 - 20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schodel, E. Villaver, S. Perez-Hoyos (eds.), 2019