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    • Emission-line CCD imaging of three southern symbiotic stars

      Harish C. Bhatt Ram Sagar

      Volume 12 Issue 2 June 1991 pp 111-117

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    • Keywords

       

      narrow-band CCD imaging; symbiotic star; morphology

    • Abstract

       

      Symbiotic stars that are strong radio sources and have cool dust emitting in the infrared are expected to have extended emission nebulae around them. In order to search for such emission nebulae, we have carried out CCD imaging of three symbiotic stars (R Aqr, RR Tel and H1-36) with narrow-band filters centred at the emission lines of [O III] λ5007, Hα λ6563, [N II] λ6584, [S II] λ6717 + 6731. RR Tel and H1-36 images do not show any extended nebulosities around them. The CCD image of the R Aqr nebulosity in the high excitation [O m] line is different from its image in Hα and the low excitation lines of [N II] and [S II] indicating ionization-stratification in the nebula. In H1-36 the optical nebulosity (if it exists) is smaller than ∽2 arcsec while the radio image size is known to be large (∽5 arcsec). This behaviour is opposite to that seen in R Aqr in which the radio emission comes from the core region of a much larger optical nebulosity. Interstellar and/or circumstellar extinctions are suggested to be responsible for this difference

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Harish C. Bhatt1 Ram Sagar1

      1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore - 560034

    • Dates

       
      Published
      June 1991
      Manuscript received
      27 December 1990
      Accepted
      25 March 1991

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