ALMA Observations of Molecular Line Emission from High-excitation Bipolar Planetary Nebulae
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| author | Baez, Paula Moraga Kastner, Joel H. Bublitz, Jesse Alcolea, Javier Santander-Garcia, Miguel Forveille, Thierry Hily-Blant, Pierre Balick, Bruce Montez Jr., Rodolfo Gieser, Caroline |
| author_facet | Baez, Paula Moraga Kastner, Joel H. Bublitz, Jesse Alcolea, Javier Santander-Garcia, Miguel Forveille, Thierry Hily-Blant, Pierre Balick, Bruce Montez Jr., Rodolfo Gieser, Caroline |
| contents | We present early results from our program of ALMA Band 6 (1.3mm) molecular line mapping of a sample of nearby, well-studied examples of high-excitation, bipolar/pinched-waist and molecule-rich planetary nebulae (Hubble 5 and NGC 2440, 2818, 2899, 6302, and 6445). We have mapped these planetary nebulae (PNe) in isotopologues of CO as well as various molecular line tracers of high-energy irradiation, such as HCN, CN, HNC, and HCO+, with the complementary goals of establishing nebular kinematics as well as the zones of UV-heated and X-ray-ionized molecular gas within each nebula. The resulting high-resolution ALMA molecular emission-line maps reveal the regions of high-excitation bipolar PNe in which molecular gas, presumably ejected during asymptotic giant branch stages of the PN progenitor stars, survives and evolves chemically. We present a summary of molecular species detected to date in the sample nebulae, and we use example results for one PN (NGC 6455) to demonstrate the power of the ALMA data in revealing the structures, kinematics, and compositions of the equatorial molecular tori that are a common feature of the sample objects. |
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| spellingShingle | ALMA Observations of Molecular Line Emission from High-excitation Bipolar Planetary Nebulae Baez, Paula Moraga Kastner, Joel H. Bublitz, Jesse Alcolea, Javier Santander-Garcia, Miguel Forveille, Thierry Hily-Blant, Pierre Balick, Bruce Montez Jr., Rodolfo Gieser, Caroline Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies We present early results from our program of ALMA Band 6 (1.3mm) molecular line mapping of a sample of nearby, well-studied examples of high-excitation, bipolar/pinched-waist and molecule-rich planetary nebulae (Hubble 5 and NGC 2440, 2818, 2899, 6302, and 6445). We have mapped these planetary nebulae (PNe) in isotopologues of CO as well as various molecular line tracers of high-energy irradiation, such as HCN, CN, HNC, and HCO+, with the complementary goals of establishing nebular kinematics as well as the zones of UV-heated and X-ray-ionized molecular gas within each nebula. The resulting high-resolution ALMA molecular emission-line maps reveal the regions of high-excitation bipolar PNe in which molecular gas, presumably ejected during asymptotic giant branch stages of the PN progenitor stars, survives and evolves chemically. We present a summary of molecular species detected to date in the sample nebulae, and we use example results for one PN (NGC 6455) to demonstrate the power of the ALMA data in revealing the structures, kinematics, and compositions of the equatorial molecular tori that are a common feature of the sample objects. |
| title | ALMA Observations of Molecular Line Emission from High-excitation Bipolar Planetary Nebulae |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08961 |