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环形星云NGC 6720的切向运动和光谱学

Tangential Motions and Spectroscopy within NGC 6720, the Ring Nebula

C. R. O'Dell, W. J. Henney, F. Sabbadin

摘要:

我们将哈勃空间望远镜WFPC 2最近拍摄的[O III] 5007和[N II] 6583行的图像与9.557年前拍摄的类似图像相结合,以确定环形星云在天空平面内的运动。比例比例图像支持同源膨胀,也就是说,更大的速度随着距离中心恒星的距离增加而增加。各个特征的运动模式相当嘈杂,这也证明了同样的结论,即轮廓线结的运动速度与周围的气体相同。这些切向速度与最近的高分辨率径向速度研究的信息相结合,以确定动态距离,这与从中心恒星视差确定的距离基本一致。我们还获得了非常高的信噪比中等分辨率的光谱(9.4埃)沿星云的长轴和短轴,并从这个确定的电子温度和密度在多个电离区存在。这些结果证实了环状星云作为一个较老的行星状星云的地位,其中心恒星正在向白矮星冷却曲线过渡。(根据美国航天局/欧空局哈勃太空望远镜的观测,该望远镜是在太空望远镜科学研究所获得的,该研究所由大学天文学研究协会经营,根据NASA合同号NAS 5-26555和由墨西哥国立自治大学运营的圣佩德罗马蒂尔天文台。

英文摘要:

We have combined recent Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 images in the [O III] 5007 and [N II] 6583 lines with similar images made 9.557 years earlier to determine the motion of the Ring Nebula within the plane of the sky. Scaled ratio images argue for homologous expansion, that is, larger velocities scale with increasing distance from the central star. The rather noisy pattern of motion of individual features argues for the same conclusion and that the silhouetted knots move at the same rate as the surrounding gas. These tangential velocities are combined with information from a recent high resolution radial velocity study to determine a dynamic distance, which is in basic agreement with the distance determined from the parallax of the central star. We have also obtained very high signal to noise ratio moderate resolution spectra (9.4 Angstrom) along the major and minor axes of the nebula and from this determined the electron temperatures and density in the multiple ionization zones present. These results confirm the status of the Ring Nebula as one of the older planetary nebulae, with a central star transitioning to the white dwarf cooling curve. (Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA Contract No. NAS 5-26555 and the San Pedro Martir Observatory operated by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.)

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