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Date: May 31 02:06 2013

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Title: Evolution of the 1919 Ejecta of V605 Aquilae Authors: Geoffrey C. Clayton, Howard E. Bond, Lindsey A. Long, Paul I. Meyer, Ben E. K. Sugerman, Edward Montiel, William B. Sparks, M. G. Meakes, O. Chesneau, O. De Marco New imaging of V605 Aql, was obtained in 2009 with HST/WFPC2, which had a nova-like outburst in 1919, and is located at the center of the planetary nebula (PN), Abell 58. This event has long been ascribed to a final helium shell flash, but it has been suggested recently that it may instead have been an ONe nova. The new images provide an 18 year baseline for the expansion of the ejecta from the 1919 event. In addition, the central star has been directly detected in the visible for the first time since 1923, when it faded from sight due to obscuration by dust. The expansion of the ejecta has a velocity of ~200 km/s, and an angular expansion rate of ~10 mas/yr, consistent with a 1919 ejection. This implies a geometric distance of 4.6 kpc for V605 Aql, consistent with previous estimates. The gas mass in the central knot of ejecta was previously estimated to be 5 x 10^-5 solar masses. It is estimated that warm dust associated with this gas has a mass of ~10^-5 solar masses. There is also evidence for a significant amount, 10^-3 solar masses, of cold (75 K) dust, which may be associated with its PN. The knot ejected in 1919 is asymmetrical and is approximately aligned with the asymmetry of the surrounding PN. Polarimetric imaging was obtained to investigate whether the 2001 spectrum of V605 Aql was obtained primarily in scattered light from dust in the central knot, but the signal-to-noise in the data was insufficient to measure the level of polarisation. Read more (1996kb, PDF) __________________

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Date: Nov 8 15:12 2007

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Title: The hydrogen-deficient knot of the 'born again' planetary nebula Abell 58 (V605 Aql) Authors: R. Wesson, M.J. Barlow, X-W. Liu, P.J. Storey, B. Ercolano, O. De Marco We have analysed deep optical spectra of the 'born-again' planetary nebula Abell 58 and its hydrogen-deficient knot, surrounding V605 Aql, which underwent a nova-like eruption in 1919. The electron temperature we derive for the central knot varies widely depending on the diagnostic used. The [O III] nebular-to-auroral transition ratio gives a temperature of 20800 K, while the ratio of the [N II] nebular and auroral lines give Te=15200 K. The helium line ratios 5876/4471 and 6678/4471 imply temperatures of 350 K and 550 K respectively. Weakly temperature-sensitive O II recombination line ratios imply similarly low electron temperatures. Abundances derived from recombination lines are vastly higher than those found from collisionally excited lines, with the abundance discrepancy factor (adf) for O2+ reaching 89 -- the second highest known value after that found for the hydrogen deficient knots in Abell 30. The observed temperature diagnostics and abundances support the idea that, like Abell 30, the knot of Abell 58 contains some very cold ionised material. Although the central star is carbon-rich (C/O>1), the knot is found to be oxygen-rich, a situation not predicted by the single-star `born again' theory of its formation. We argue that the abundances in the ejecta observed in A 30 and A 58 have more in common with neon novae than with Sakurai's Object, which is believed to have undergone a final helium flash. In particular, the C/O ratio of less than unity and presence of substantial quantities of neon in the ejecta of both Abell 30 and Abell 58 are not predicted by very late thermal pulse models. Read more (464kb, PDF) __________________

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