Detailed studies of IPHAS sources - II. Sab 19, a true planetary nebula and its mimic crossing the Perseus Arm

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Guerrero, Martín A., Ortiz, R., Sabin, L., Ramos-Larios, G., Alfaro, Emilio J.
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (México), European Commission, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2021
• Subjects: Planetary nebulae: general; Planetary nebulae: individual: Sab 19; Stars: AGB and post-AGB; Norway; Observatorio; Papiit; Simbad; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/239713; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3082

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The INT Photometric Hα Survey (IPHAS) has provided us with a number of new emission-line sources, among which planetary nebulae (PNe) constitute an important fraction. Here we present a detailed analysis of the IPHAS nebula Sab 19 (IPHASX J055242.8+262116) based on radio, infrared, and optical images and intermediate- and high-dispersion long-slit spectra. Sab 19 consists of a roundish 0.10 pc in radius double-shell nebula surrounded by a much larger 2.8 pc in radius external shell with a prominent H-shaped filament. We confirm the nature of the main nebula as a PN whose sub-solar N/O ratio abundances, low ionized mass, peculiar radial velocity, and low-mass central star allow us to catalogue it as a Type III PN. Apparently, the progenitor star of Sab 19 became a PN when crossing the Perseus Arm during a brief visit of a few Myr. The higher N/O ratio and velocity shift ≃ 40 km s-1 of the external shell with respect to the main nebula and its large ionized mass suggest that it is not truly associated with Sab 19, but it is rather dominated by a Strömgren zone in the interstellar medium ionized by the PN central star. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI). MAG acknowledges support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MCIU) through grant PGC2018-102184-B-I00, LS acknowledges support from DGAPA, UNAM PAPIIT project IN101819, GR-L acknowledges support from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) grant 263373 and Programa para el Desarrollo Profesional (PRODEP) Mexico, and EJA acknowledges support from MCIU grant PGC2018-095049-B-C21. MAG and EJA are supported by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award for the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709). This research has made use of the SIMBAD database operated at CDS (Strasbourg, France), the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology, the NASA's Astrophysics Data System, and NRAO VLA Sky Survey. It has also made use of data obtained as part of the INT Photometric Ha Survey (IPHAS) of the Northern Galactic Plane carried out at the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), which is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof ' isica de Canarias. All IPHAS data are processed by the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit, at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. Based on observations made with the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) and Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), installed in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, in the island of La Palma. NOT is owned in collaboration by the University of Turku and Aarhus University, and operated jointly by Aarhus University, the University of Turku and the University of Oslo, representing Denmark, Finland and Norway, the University of Iceland and Stockholm University. This work is partly based on data obtained with the instruments ALFOSC, which is provided by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA) under a joint agreement with the University of Copenhagen and NOTSA, and OSIRIS, built by a Consortium led by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in collaboration with the Instituto de Astronomia of the Universidad Autonoma de México. OSIRIS was funded by GRANTECAN and the National Plan of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Spanish Government. Peer reviewed