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Symbiotic Miras can do it

R. L. M. Corradi, M. Livio, H. E. Schwarz, U. Munari

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0001234

Abstract

Symbiotic Miras give a nice practical demonstration of the formation of bipolar and highly aspherical nebulae as a consequence of interaction in detached binaries. We believe that these binary systems are among the most promising candidates for the progenitors of bipolar planetary nebulae. We present a list of the optically extended nebulae known to date around symbiotic Miras, and illustrate their properties using recent HST and ESO-NTT [NII] images of He 2-104 and He 2-147.

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