HE-3-1475 AND ITS JETS

We present spectra and high-resolution images taken with the Hubble Sp ace Telescope (HST), the NTT, the VLA, and the MPIA/ESO 2.2 m telescop e of the emission-line star He 3-1475, which we suggest is a postasymp totic giant branch star. The star is presumed to be at the origin of a 15 '' long structure containing symmetrically opposing bright knots. The knots have radial velocities of +/-500 km s(-1) from the center of He 3-1475 to the ends of the jets. HST snapshots show that the core o f He 3-1475 is unipolar with a star at the SE end and the nebula fanni ng out toward the NW. VLA observations show the presence of OH masers, which are positioned parallel to the optical jets. A model is propose d that accounts for all of the observational data. This unusual object may link the OH/IR stars having extreme outflow velocities with highl y bipolar planetary nebulae. circumstellar