PLAN-B

PLAN-B is a collaboration to look for binaries in the central stars of planetary nebulae, their progenitors and progeny. We are testing the hypothesis is that binarity is a dominant mechanism to form and shape planetary nebulae, an assertion that is backed by theory. With these pages we coordinate our projects.

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Community portal: the PLAN-BBlog

 

The Team

Agnes Acker (Observatoire de Strasbourg, France) David Le Mignant (Keck Observatory)
Eric Blackman (University of Rochester) Brent Miszalski (Observatoire de Strasbourg, FR)
Howard Bond (STScI, USA) Max Moe (University of Colorado, USA)
Olivier Chesneau (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, FR) Ulisse Munari (Osservatorio d'Asiago, Italy)
Geoff Clayton (Louisiana State University, USA) Jason Nordhaus (University of Rochester)
Romano Corradi (Isaac Newton Group, Spain) Quentin Parker (Maquarie University)
Orsola De Marco (AMNH, USA - coordinator) Thomas Rauch (University of Tubingen, Germany)
David Frew (Perth Observatory, Australia) Raghvendra Sahai (JPL/Caltech, USA)
Todd Hillwig (Valparaiso University, USA) Dick Shaw (NOAO, USA)
Bruce Hrivnak (Valparaiso University, USA) Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
Chih-Hao Hsia (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, Taiwan) Peter Sorensen (Nordic Optical Telescope, Spain)
Rob Izzard (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Gagik Tovmasian (UNAM, Mexico)
George Jacoby (WIYN, USA) Hans van Winckel (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Eric Lagadec (University of Manchester, UK) Albert Zijlstra (University of Manchester, UK)

 

Publications

 

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