Ultraviolet Evidence for a Binary Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula SH 2-71

Feibelman, Walter A.

United States

Abstract

Archival IUE spectra of the planetary nebula Sh 2-71 show a variable Mg II lambda2800 emission line superposed on a variable stellar continuum. The Mg II feature is thought to be excited in the chromosphere of the cooler component of a binary nucleus, although other causes are also plausible.

1999 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
IUE 7