The Sigma - D relation for planetary nebulae

Details The Sigma - D relation for planetary nebulae The Sigma - D relation for planetary nebulae

2009-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2334v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 495, pp. 537-546 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

12 pages, 3 tables, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/200809494

We present an extended analysis of the relation between radio surface brightness and diameter -- the so-called $\Sigma-D$ relation for planetary nebulae (PNe). We revise our previous derivation of the theoretical $\Sigma-D$ relation for the evolution of bremsstrahlung surface brightness in order to include the influence of the fast wind from the central star. Different theoretical forms are derived: $\Sigma \propto D^{-1}$ for the first and second phases of evolution and $\Sigma\propto D^{-3}$ for the final stage of evolution. Also, we analyzed several different Galactic PN samples. All samples are influenced by severe selection effects, but Malmquist bias seems to be less influential here than in the supernova remnant (SNR) samples. We derived empirical $\Sigma-D$ relations for 27 sample sets using 6 updated PN papers from which an additional 21 new sets were extracted. Twenty four of these have a trivial form of $\beta \approx 2$. However, we obtain one empirical $\Sigma-D$ relation that may be useful for determining distances to PNe. This relation is obtained by extracting a recent nearby (< 1 kpc) Galactic PN sample.

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