Discovery of new planetary nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2016-08-24 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
We present six new planetary nebulae (PNe) discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) from deep UK Schmidt telescope (UKST) narrow band Halpha and broad-band short-red "SR" continuum images and confirmed spectroscopically. These 6 preliminary discoveries provide a 6% increase to the previously known SMC PN population of ~100. Once spectroscopic follow-up of all our newly identified candidates is complete, we expect to increase the total number of known SMC PNe by up to 50%. This will permit a significant improvement to determination of the SMC PN luminosity function (PNLF) and enable further insights into the chemical evolution and kinematics of the SMC PN population.
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@article{arxiv.1603.07955,
title = {Discovery of new planetary nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud},
author = {Danica Drašković and Quentin A. Parker and Warren A. Reid and Milorad Stupar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07955},
year = {2016}
}
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11th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics - Proceedings