Symbiotic Miras vs. Planetary Nebulae in the Near Infrared
Abstract
Description
While symbiotic Miras and planetary nebulae are hard to distinguish by optical spectroscopy, their near infrared colors differ. We propose the near infrared two-color diagram to be an excellent tool to easily distinguish these two classes of objects.
4 pages, 2 figures; to appear in "Symbiotic stars probing stellar evolution", Eds. R.L.M. Corradi, J. Mikolajewska, and T.J. Mahoney, ASP conf. series, in press
4 pages, 2 figures; to appear in "Symbiotic stars probing stellar evolution", Eds. R.L.M. Corradi, J. Mikolajewska, and T.J. Mahoney, ASP conf. series, in press