Detailed studies of IPHAS sources - I. The disrupted late bipolar IPHASX J193718.6+202102

We present a detailed analysis of the new planetary nebula (PN) IPHASX J193718.6+202102 using deep imaging and intermediate- and high-resolution spectroscopy that are interpreted through morpho-kinematic and photoionization modelling. The physical structure of the nebula consists of a fragmented torus and an extremely faint orthogonal bipolar outflow, contrary to the pinched waist PN morphology suggested by its optical image. Our kinematic analysis indicates that the torus is expanding at 25 ± 5 km s-1 and is gradually breaking up. At an estimated distance of 7.1-0.3+0.8 kpc, the corresponding kinematic age of ∼26 000 yr is consistent with a faint and disintegrating PN. The intermediate-resolution spectra reveal an excited PN with chemical abundances typical of Type II PNe. Based on the latter, we also estimate an initial mass for the progenitor in the range 2-3 M⊙ and a central star (CSPN) mass MCSPN ∼0.61 M⊙. The Spitzer MIPS 24 μm emission that closely follows the fragmented torus could be attributed to the emission of [O iv] at 25.9 μm rather than to dust emission. All the results coherently point towards an evolved moderately massive bipolar Type II PN on the brink of dissolving into the interstellar medium. © 2020 The Author(s).The authors are thankful to the referees for their comments that improved this paper. LS acknowledges support from UNAM DGAPA PAPIIT project IN101819 (Mexico). MAG acknowledges support from grant AYA PGC2018-102184-B-I00 co-funded with FEDER funds. SZ works under the collaboration agreement ‘UNAM-TecNM 43310-3020-30-IX-15’. JAT and MAG are funded by UNAM DGAPA PAPIIT project IA100720. GRL acknowledges support from CONACYT (grant 263373) and PRODEP (Mexico). This work is partially based on observations collected at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro Mártir, B.C., Mexico and we thank the daytime and night support staff at the OAN-SPM for facilitating and helping obtain our observations. Based on observations made with the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated by the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), both installed in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in La Palma, Spain. This paper makes use of data obtained as part of the INT Photometric H α Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS, www.iphas.org) carried out at the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT). The INT is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. All IPHAS data are processed by the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit, at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. The bandmerged DR2 catalogue was assembled at the Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, supported by STFC grant ST/J001333/1. The OSN director is acknowledged for awarding observations through a DDT programme and the telescope operator Alfredo Sota for conducting the observations. This work is based in part on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. In memoriam of Johannes Andersen, director of the NOT from 2002 to 2013.Peer reviewe