Imaging of four planetary nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds using the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera

Details Imaging of four planetary nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds using the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera Imaging of four planetary nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds using the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera

Oct 1992

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 398, no. 1, p. L41-L44.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Faint Object Camera, Hubble Space Telescope, Magellanic Clouds, Planetary Nebulae, Spaceborne Astronomy, H Beta Line, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Structure

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Using the Faint Object Camera on-board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained images of four planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Magellanic Clouds, namely N2 and N5 in the SMC and N66 and N201 in the LMC. Each nebula was imaged through two narrow-band filters isolating forbidden O III 5007 and H-beta, for a nominal exposure time of 1000 s in each filter. In forbidden O III, SMC N5 shows a circular ring structure, with a peak-to-peak diameter of 0.26 arcsec and a FWHM of 0.35 arcsec while SMC N2 shows an elliptical ring structure with a peak-to-peak diameter of 0.26 x 0.21. The expansion ages corresponding to the observed structures in SMC N2 and N5 are of the order of 3000 yr. LMC N201 is very compact, with a FWHM of 0.2 arcsec in H-beta. The Type I PN LMC N66 is a multipolar nebula, with the brightest part having an extent of about 2 arcsec and with fainter structures extending over 4 arcsec.

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