Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Populations
Astrophysics
2016-01-27 v1
Abstract
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) have been used satisfactory to test the effects of stellar evolution on the Galactic chemical environment. Moreover, a link exists between nebular morphology and stellar populations and evolution. We present the latest results on Galactic PN morphology, and an extension to a distance unbiased and homogeneous sample of Large Magellanic Cloud PNe. We show that PNe and their morphology may be successfully used as probes of stellar evolution and populations.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912323,
title = {Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Populations},
author = {Letizia Stanghellini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912323},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
to appear in: Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: stars versus clusters, ed. F. Giovannelli and F. Matteucci, Kluwer (2000), in press