Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-09-25
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) 424
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04038.x
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 of 24 new objects, whose spectra we present for the first time. 54 PNe have clearly identified warm dust emission features, and form a sample which we use to construct the distribution of the C/O chemical balance in galactic disk PNe. The dust emission features complement the information on the progenitor masses brought by the gas-phase N/O ratios: PNe with unidentified infrared emission bands have the highest N/O ratios, while PNe with the silicate signature have either very high N enrichment or close to none, and SiC emission features coincide with a range of moderate N-enrichments. We find a trend for a decreasing proportion of O-rich PNe towards the third and fourth galactic quadrants. Two independent distance scales confirmed that the proportion of O-rich PNe decreases from 30+-9% inside the solar circle, to 14+-7% outside. PNe with warm dust are also the youngest. PNe with no warm dust are uniformly distributed in C/O and N/O ratios, and do not appear to be confined to C/O~1. They also have higher 6cm fluxes, as expected from more evolved PNe. We show that the IRAS fluxes are a good representation of the bolometric flux for warm-dust PNe. The requirement F(12um)>0.5Jy should probe a good portion of the galactic disk, and the dominant selection effects are rooted in the PN catalogues.
Aitken David K.
Casassus Simon
Roche Patrick F.
Smith Cotton H.
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