Three-Dimensional Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Point-Symmetric Nebulae

Authors
  • E.-J. Rijkhorst
  • V. Icke
  • G. Mellema
Publication date 2004
Host editors
  • M. Meixner
  • J.H. Kastner
  • B. Balick
  • N. Soker
Book title Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae III: Winds, Structure and the Thunderbird
Volume | Issue number 313
Pages (from-to) 472
Publisher San Francisco: ASP
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract Previous analytical and numerical work shows that the generalized interacting stellar winds model can explain the observed bipolar shapes of planetary nebulae very well. However, many circumstellar nebulae have a multipolar or point-symmetric shape. With two-dimensional calculations, Icke showed that these seemingly enigmatic forms can be easily reproduced by a two-wind model in which the confining disk is warped, as is expected to occur in irradiated disks. In this contribution we present the extension to fully three-dimensional adaptive mesh refinement simulations of such an interaction.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2004ASPC..313..472R&db_key=AST&high=3ed1d2904230515
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