Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-03-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:120-142,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted by MNRAS. 23 pages, 37 figures. A full resolution version is available at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~pns/pns_pub.html
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10268.x
We present a catalogue of positions, magnitudes and velocities for 3300 emission-line objects found by the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph in a survey of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31. Of these objects, 2615 are found likely to be planetary nebulae (PNe) associated with M31. Initial results from this survey include: the likely non-existence of Andromeda VIII; a universal PN luminosity function, with the exception of a small amount of obscuration, and a small offset in normalization between bulge and disk components; very faint kinematically-selected photometry implying no cut-off in the disk to beyond 4 scalelengths and no halo population in excess of the bulge out to 10 effective bulge radii; disk kinematics that show significant dispersion and asymmetric drift out to large radii, consistent with a warm flaring disk; and no sign of any variation in kinematics with PN luminosity, suggesting that PNe arise from a fairly uniform population of old stars.
Arnaboldi Magda
Bridges Terry James
Capaccioli Massimo
Carter David
Coccato Lodovico
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