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The Planetary Nebula HuBi 1, a Rebel with a Cause

Speaker Dr. Martin Guerrero
Affiliation Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC, National Research Council of Spain)
Date March 13, 2019 (Wednesday)
Time 4:45 p.m.
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU

Abstract


Planetary nebulae, the descendants of low- and intermediate-mass stars, have characteristic onion-like ionization structure, with the highest ionization species closer to the central star. This is true for all planetary nebulae, but HuBi 1, which shows an inverted ionization inner shell. There is a reason for this oddity, a peculiar stellar evolution of its central star, which makes HuBi 1 the missing link of the population of cool C-rich central stars of planetary nebulae.

Coffee and tea will be served 20 minutes prior to the seminar.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.