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A young multipolar planetary nebula in the making—IRAS 21282+5050

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We present high-angular-resolution Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical and near-infrared imaging of the compact planetary nebula (PN) IRAS 21282+5050. Optical images of this object reveal several complex morphological structures including three pairs of bipolar lobes and an elliptical shell lying close to the plane of the sky. From near-infrared observations, we found a dust torus oriented nearly perpendicular to the major axis of elliptical shell. The results suggest that IRAS 21282+5050 is a multipolar PN, and these structures developed early during the post asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) evolution. From a three-dimensional (3-D) model, we derived the physical dimensions of these apparent structures. When the 3-D model is viewed from different orientations, IRAS 21282+5050 shows similar apparent structures as other multipolar PNs. Analysis of the spectral energy distribution and optical spectroscopic observations of the nebula suggests the presence of a cool companion to the hot central star responsible for the ionization of the nebula. Whether the binary nature of the central star has any relations with the multipolar structure of the nebula needs to be further investigated.

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  1. We note that some filters are broad and color corrections may be needed for some flux densities given in Fig. 5 and Table 4. The color correction factors for the WISE bands can be found in Wright et al. (2010)

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We thank an anonymous referee for his/her helpful comments. Part of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Multi-mission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science via grant NAG5- 7584 and by other grants and contracts. We acknowledge the support of the staff of the Xinglong 2.16m telescope. This work was partially supported by the Open Project Program of the Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Laboratory for Space Research was established by a grant from the University Development Fund of the University of Hong Kong. Financial support for this work is supported by the grants from Science and Technology Development Fund of Macau (project codes: 119/2017/A3 and 061/2017/A2) and a grant to SK from the Natural and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, 999078, China

    Chih-Hao Hsia

  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai Campus, Tangjia, Zhuhai, 519082, China

    Yong Zhang

  3. Laboratory for Space Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Chih-Hao Hsia, Yong Zhang, Sun Kwok & Wayne Chau

  4. Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Sun Kwok

  5. Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Wayne Chau

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Hsia, CH., Zhang, Y., Kwok, S. et al. A young multipolar planetary nebula in the making—IRAS 21282+5050. Astrophys Space Sci 364, 32 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-019-3523-2

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