• DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20929.x
Corpus ID: 10264296

IC 4663: the first unambiguous [WN] Wolf-Rayet central star of a planetary nebula

@article{Miszalski2012IC4T,
  title={IC 4663: the first unambiguous [WN] Wolf-Rayet central star of a planetary nebula},
  author={B. Miszalski and P. Crowther and O. D. Marco and J. Koppen and A. Moffat and A. Acker and T. Hillwig},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2012},
  volume={423},
  pages={934-947}
}

B. Miszalski, P. Crowther, +4 authors T. Hillwig

Published 2012

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

We report on the serendipitous discovery of the first central star of a planetary nebula (PN) that mimics the helium- and nitrogen-rich WN sequence of massive Wolf–Rayet (WR) stars. The central star of IC 4663 (PN G346.2−08.2) is dominated by broad He II and N V emission lines which correspond to a [WN3] spectral type. Unlike previous [WN] candidates, the surrounding nebula is unambiguously a PN. At an assumed distance of 3.5 kpc, corresponding to a stellar luminosity of 4000 L⊙, the V= 16.9… CONTINUE READING

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