Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-08
AIP Conf.Proc.804:12-12,2006; Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:401-413,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 21 figures (zipped). Accepted for publication in Mmonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09757.x
We report our initial discovery of 73 new planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) following confirmatory 2dF spectroscopy on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). Preliminary candidate sources come from a 10 per cent sub-area of our new deep, high resolution H-alpha map of the central 25 deg. square of the LMC obtained with the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST). The depth of the high resolution map was extended to Requiv~22 for H-alpha (4.5 x 10-17 ergs cm-2 s-1 Ang-1) by a process of multi-exposure median co-addition of a dozen 2-hour H-alpha exposures. The resulting map is at least 1-magnitude deeper than the best wide-field narrow-band LMC images currently available. This depth, combined with our selection technique, has also led to the discovery of extended AGB halos around many new and previously known LMC PNe for the first time. Once complete, our new survey is expected to triple the LMC PN population and have significant implications for the LMC PN luminosity function, kinematics, abundance gradients chemical evolution and, via study of the AGB halos, the initial to final mass relation for low to intermediate mass stars.
Parker Quentin A.
Reid Warren A.
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