An Extremly Oxygen-Poor Planetary Nebula In The Galactic Halo

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Nov 2000

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Ionized Gaseous Nebulae. Mexico City November 21- 24, 2000, meeting abstract

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We report results of a spectrophotometric study of SBS 1150+599A, and discus s the nature of this object basing on our data. Our study shows that SBS 1150+599A is most probably a planetary nebula located in the Galactic halo and not a cataclysmic variable as originally proposed by the authors of the Second Byurakan Survey from low resolution spectroscopy. We have further elaborated on the properties of SBS 1150+599A with tools used for planetary nebula analysis. Our photoionization models show that, in order to match the observational constraints, the oxygen abundance in the nebula must be extremely low, probably around 1/1000 solar, that is one order of magnitude lower than the most oxygen-poor planetary nebulae known so far. This finding has strong implications on our understanding of the formation of planetary nebulae and of the evolution of the Galactic halo.

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