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ABRIDGED: 2D spectroscopic MUSE data for the whole extent of NGC3132 have been reduced and analised. The dust extinction, electron densities and temperatures of the ionised gas and abundances were determined. The nebula presents a complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ana Monreal-Ibero , Jeremy R. Walsh

We examine the dark matter properties of nearby early-type galaxies using planetary nebulae (PNe) as mass probes. We have designed a specialised instrument, the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (PN.S) operating at the William Herschel…

We present integrated optical spectrophotometry for a sample of 417 nearby galaxies. Our observations consist of spatially integrated, S/N=10-100 spectroscopy between 3600 and 6900 Angstroms at ~8 Angstroms FWHM resolution. In addition, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Moustakas , Robert C. Kennicutt

The current sample of high-redshift Supernova Type Ia, which combines results from two teams, High-z Supernova Search Team and Supernova Cosmology Project, is analyzed for the effects of weak lensing. After correcting SNe magnitudes for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Liliya L. R. Williams , Jeeseon Song

The H$\alpha$ surface brightness $-$ radius ($S-r$) relation is a robust distance indicator for planetary nebulae (PNe), further enhanced by different populations of PNe having distinct loci in $S-r$ space. Other types of photoionized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 David J. Frew , Ivan S. Bojicic , Quentin A. Parker

We constructed a local luminosity function (LF) of galaxies using a flux-limited sample (S_170 > 0.195Jy) of 55 galaxies at z < 0.3 taken from the ISO FIRBACK survey at 170um. The overall shape of the 170-um LF is found to be different from…

In this work we report spectrophotometric observations of a planetary nebula sample towards the galactic bulge. A total of 45 PNe was observed and their physical parameters (electron density and temperature) were derived. Ionic abundances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Escudero , R. D. D. Costa

We present new and archival SOFIA FIFI-LS far-IR spectroscopic observations of 25 local galaxies of either the [OIII]52um and/or the [NIII]57um lines. Including other 31 galaxies from Herschel-PACS, we discuss a local sample of 47 galaxies,…

We have developed a Monte Carlo method to compute the luminosity function of galaxies, based on photometric redshifts, which takes into account the non-gaussianity of the probability functions, and the presence of degenerate solutions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Micol Bolzonella , Roser Pello' , Dario Maccagni

We present the Ly$\alpha$ luminosity functions (LFs) at $z=$5.7 and 6.6 derived from a new large sample of 1,266 Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) identified in total areas of 14 and 21 deg$^2$, respectively, based on the early narrowband data of…

We investigate the galactic disk distribution of a sample of planetary nebulae characterised in terms of their mid-infrared spectral features. The total number of galactic disk PNe with 8-13mum spectra is brought up to 74 with the inclusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Casassus , P. F. Roche , D. K. Aitken , C. H. Smith

We present a panchromatic study of luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) of galaxies in the core of the Shapley supercluster at z=0.048, in order to investigate how the dense environment affects the galaxy properties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 A. Mercurio , C. P. Haines , P. Merluzzi , G. Busarello , R. J. Smith , S. Raychaudhury , G. P. Smith

We identified 21 new Planetary Nebula (PN) candidates in the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 55. We determined a most likely distance of 2.00 +/- 0.2 Mpc using the Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function (PNLF) method. The distance to NGC 55 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. C. Van de Steene , G. H. Jacoby , C. Praet , R. Ciardullo , H. Dejonghe

We present the ultraviolet (UV) imaging observation of planetary nebulae (PNe) using archival data of Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). We found 358 PNe detected by GALEX in near-UV (NUV). We have compiled a catalogue of 108 extended PNe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Ananta C. Pradhan , Swayamtrupta Panda , Mudumba Parthasarathy , Jayant Murthy , Devendra K. Ojha

We have observed emission line objects located in a 0.26 deg^2 field in the M96 (Leo) group, coincident with the intergalactic HI cloud. The emission line objects were selected using the same procedure as used for the search for…

We have observed twenty two galaxies at 100 microns with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory in order to determine the size of their FIR emitting regions. Most of these galaxies are luminous far-infrared sources, with L_FIR > 10^11 L_sun. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric C. Zink , Dan F. Lester , Greg Doppmann , Paul M. Harvey

We constrain the rest-UV size-luminosity relation for star-forming galaxies at z~4 and z~6, 7, and 8 identified behind clusters from the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program. The size-luminosity relation is key to deriving accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 R. J. Bouwens , G. D. Illingworth , P. G. van Dokkum , P. A. Oesch , M. Stefanon , B. Ribeiro

The [O III] 5007 Angstrom line is typically the brightest line in planetary nebula (PN) spectra. Observations show that the brightest [O III] 5007 Angstrom PN in a galaxy -- the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) bright-end cutoff…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Philippe Z. Yao , Eliot Quataert

We report detailed analyses of deep, high-resolution spectra of three Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) with high abundance discrepancy factors (ADFs), Hf2-2, M1-42 and NGC6153, obtained with the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Haomiao Huang , Xuan Fang , Jorge Garcia-Rojas , Zhijun Tu , Jifeng Liu , Xiaowei Liu