CO Interferometric Maps of CIT 6 and CRL 618

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We present CO (1−0) interferometer maps of carbon star, CIT 6, and carbon rich proto-planetary nebula, CRL618. Both objects were mapped with the Berekeley-Illinois-Maryland millimeter array (BIMA). The resulting resolution is ∼ 4″ and structure larger than ∼1′ is completely filtered out. Two velocity resolutions were employed; 0.4 km s⁻¹ and 0.8 km s⁻¹ permitting a velocity coverage of 52 and 104 km s⁻¹. We find evidence for non-spherical expanding envelopes in both objects. The interferometer detected all the single dish CO flux in CRL618 (840 Jy km s⁻¹), and 70% of the CO flux in CIT 6 (or 1030 Jy km s⁻¹). For CIT 6, we obtained single dish maps at the NRAO 12m to measure the zero spacing flux distribution. We measure an envelope diameter of 90″ (2.6 × 10¹⁷ at 190 pc) for CIT 6 and 15″ (4.5 × 10¹⁷ at 2 kpc) for CRL 618 and expansion velocities of 17 km s⁻¹ for both. The small scale structure seen by the interferometer in CIT 6 has a core and an elongation to the SW. We interpret this elongation as the beginning of an equatorial density enhancement and predict that that CIT 6 will evolve into a bipolar planetary nebula. In CRL 618, the elongated structure seen in CO is perpendicular to the optical reflection nebula, which has an east-west orientation. Hence the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) wind appears as an expanding waist band around this bipolar nebula giving credence to the idea that equatorial density enhancements in AGB winds produce bipolar planetary nebulae (Balick 1987).