Single rotating stars and the formation of Bipolar Planetary Nebula

10/04/2014
An international team of astronomers from the IA-UNAM and the IAC have found that single stellar rotators are unlikely to be the progenitors of bipolar Planetary Nebulae under the current MHD model paradigm. This work is a result of the collaboration carried out during the Severo Ochoa Visit of Dr. Arturo Manchado Torres to the IA-UNAM in Mexico on October 2013 and has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.