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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The Team

Agnes Acker (Observatoire de Strasbourg, France) David Le Mignant (Keck Observatory, USA)
Jana Bilikova (University of Illinois, USA) Brent Miszalski (Macquarie, Obs. de Strasbourg, FR)
Eric Blackman (University of Rochester, USA) Max Moe (University of Colorado, USA)
Howard Bond (STScI, USA) Rodolfo Montez (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Olivier Chesneau (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, FR) Ulisse Munari (Osservatorio d'Asiago, Italy)
You-Hua Chu (University of Illinois, USA) Jason Nordhaus (Princeton Univ, USA)
Geoff Clayton (Louisiana State University, USA) Quentin Parker (Macquarie University, Australia)
Romano Corradi (Isaac Newton Group, Spain) Jean-Claude Passy (AMNH/Univ Victoria, USA, Canada)
Orsola De Marco (Macquarie Univ, AUS - coordinator) Thomas Rauch (University of Tubingen, Germany)
David Frew (Macquarie Univ, Australia) Raghvendra Sahai (JPL/Caltech, USA)
Marcin Hajduk (Torun, Poland) Miguel Santander-Garcia (Isaac Newton Group, Spain)
Todd Hillwig (Valparaiso University, USA) Dick Shaw (NOAO, USA)
Bruce Hrivnak (Valparaiso University, USA) Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
Chih-Hao Hsia (Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Peter Sorensen (Nordic Optical Telescope, Spain)
Rob Izzard (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Amy Tindall (University of Manchester, UK)
George Jacoby (NOAO, USA) Gagik Tovmasian (UNAM, Mexico)
David Jones (University of Manchester, UK) Hans van Winckel (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Eric Lagadec (University of Manchester, UK) Albert Zijlstra (University of Manchester, UK)
Foteini (Claire) Lykou (Jodrell Bank, UK)  

 

Publications

 

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For information e-mail orsola@science.mq.edu.au