A Consolidated Online Database of Galactic Planetary Nebulae
Abstract
Since the unifying Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (SECGPN) a large number of new discoveries have been made thanks to improved surveys and discovery techniques. The increasingly heterogeneous published population of Galactic PNe, that we have determined totals < 2850 PNe, is becoming more difficult to study on the whole without a centralised repository. We introduce a consolidated and interactive online database with object classifications that reflect the latest multi-wavelength data and the most recent results. The extensible database, hosted by the Centre de Donnees astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS), will contain a wealth of observed data for large, well-defined samples of PNe including coordinates, multi-wavelength images, spectroscopy, line intensities, radial velocities and central star information. It is anticipated that the database will be publicly released early 2012.
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@article{arxiv.1110.1832,
title = {A Consolidated Online Database of Galactic Planetary Nebulae},
author = {B. Miszalski and A. Acker and F. Ochsenbein and Q. A. Parker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1832},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in IAU Symposium 283: Planetary Nebulae, an Eye to the Future. 2 pages, 1 figure