Discovery of a Fast-expanding Shell in the Inside-out Born-again Planetary Nebula HuBi 1 through High-dispersion Integral Field Spectroscopy

HuBi 1 has been proposed to be member of the rare class of born-again planetary nebulae (PNe), i.e., its central star experienced a very late thermal pulse and ejected highly processed material at high speeds inside the old hydrogen-rich PN. In this Letter we present GTC MEGARA integral field spectr...

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Autores: Rechy-García, J. S., Guerrero, Martín A., Santamaría, E., Gómez-González, V. M. A., Ramos-Larios, G., Toalá, Jesús A., Cazzoli, S., Sabin, L., Miranda, Luis F., Fang, X., Liu, J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/222789
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/222789
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Planetary nebulae
Jets
Stellar evolution
Interstellar medium
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Sumario:HuBi 1 has been proposed to be member of the rare class of born-again planetary nebulae (PNe), i.e., its central star experienced a very late thermal pulse and ejected highly processed material at high speeds inside the old hydrogen-rich PN. In this Letter we present GTC MEGARA integral field spectroscopic observations of the innermost regions of HuBi 1 at high spectral resolution ≃16 km s-1 and multi-epoch subarcsecond images obtained ≃12 yr apart. The analysis of these data indicates that the inner regions of HuBi 1 were ejected ≃200 yr ago and expand at velocities ≃300 km s-1, in excellent agreement with the born-again scenario. The unprecedented tomographic capabilities of the GTC MEGARA high-dispersion observations used here reveal that the ejecta in HuBi 1 has a shell-like structure, in contrast to the disrupted disk and jet morphology of the ejecta in other born-again PNe. © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.