A More Complete Sample of Planetary Nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Results from MCELS

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #156.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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We have examined the entire SMC data set from the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) and have identified 34 objects as probable planetary nebulae (PNe). All the candidates show significant emission in both [O III] and H-alpha emission lines, an absence of continuum emission, and are essentially unresolved at the 4-arcsec resolution of the MCELS. Our survey covers an area of 4.5 x 3.5 degrees, over 5 times larger than the deep CCD survey of the central 2.8 sq deg of the SMC by Jacoby & De Marco (2002, AJ, 123, 269). All but three of the new candidates are outside the Jacoby & De Marco survey region. We have measured [O III] 5007 Å fluxes for all the new candidates and for 91 previously cataloged PNe, and we have obtained a planetary nebula luminosity function that should be nearly complete down to at least 5 magnitudes below the bright cut-off. We have also obtained fluxes or upper limits for most of the PNe in H-alpha (partially contaminated by [N II]) and [S II] 6717, 6731 Å, for what is probably the most complete survey of PN line fluxes and flux ratios in any galaxy beyond our own.
This work has been supported by the NSF through grants AST-0307613, AST-0353997, and AST-9540747.

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