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Cambridge University Press (CUP), Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, S323(12), p. 70-73, 2016

DOI: 10.1017/s1743921317001958

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Close binary central stars and the abundance discrepancy - new extreme objects

Journal article published in 2016 by R. Wesson, D. Jones ORCID, J. García-Rojas, R. L. M. Corradi, H. M. J. Boffin
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Abstract

AbstractRecent work (Corradi et al. 2015; Jones et al. 2016) has shown that the phenomenon of extreme abundance discrepancies, where recombination line abundances exceed collisionally excited line abundances by factors of 10 or more, seem to be strongly associated with planetary nebulae with close binary central stars. To further investigate, we have obtained spectra of a sample of nebulae with known close binary central stars, using FORS2 on the VLT, and we have discovered several new extreme abundance discrepancy objects. We did not find any non-extreme discrepancies, suggesting that a very high fraction of nebulae with close binary central stars also have an extreme abundance discrepancy.

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