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Spiral-shells and nascent bipolar outflow in CIT 6: Hints for an eccentric-orbit binary?
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Spiral-shells and nascent bipolar outflow in CIT 6: Hints for an eccentric-orbit binary?

Hyosun Kim, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Naomi Hirano, Ronny Zhao-Geisler, Alfonso Trejo, Hsi-Wei Yen, Ronald E. Taam, Francisca Kemper, Jongsoo Kim, Do-Young Byun, …
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol.728(7), 072018
08/2016

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Physics and Astronomy (all)
We present the essential results pointed out in a recently published paper, Kim et al. 2015, Astrophys. J., 814, 61. The carbon star CIT 6 reveals evidences for a binary in a high-resolution CO line emission map of its circumstellar envelope taken with the Submillimeter Array. The morphology of the outflow described by the spiral-shell pattern, bipolar (or possibly multipolar) outflow, one-sided interarm gaps, and double spiral feature point to a plausible scenario that CIT 6 is a binary system in an eccentric orbit with the mass losing star evolving from the AGB.
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