Variation of Central Star Masses in Planetary Nebulae with Height above the Galactic Plane

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Apr 2004

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Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Vol. 40, pp. 25-30 (2004)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Ism: Jets And Outflows, Planetary Nebulae: General, Stars: Evolution

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There are various reasons for suspecting that the progenitor masses of planetary nebulae (PNe) decline with height z above the Galactic plane. This, if true, would also imply a similar decrease in mean central star masses . We report here a further way in which such gradients may be determined. It will be shown that the distribution of planetary nebulae with respect to 5 GHz brightness temperature varies strongly with Galactic latitude. This variation is likely to arise from a change in the central star mass function N(M[CS]). High latitude sources appear to have a steeply varying function N(M[CS]), implying the presence of relatively few nebulae with high central star masses. By contrast, the low latitude sources have a much gentler fall-off in N(M[CS]), implying a larger proportion of high M[CS] nebulae. This is shown to imply significant gradients of mean mass with latitude b. We find that d/d |bLOW . b[LOW] . bLOW| ≃ .0×103M&sun; deg-1 for nebulae having 1.0/d |zLOW . z[LOW] . zLOW| ≃ .6×10-2 kpc-1 for nebulae with heights |z . z . z| > |zLOW . z[LOW] . zLOW| , and where one adopts the statistical distances of Phillips (2002).

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