Searching Heavily Obscured Post-AGB Stars and Planetary Nebulae I. IRAS Candidates with 2MASS PSC Counterparts

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2009-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/0903.1131v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

13 pages, online material 39 pages (please contact first author for a full version), 5 tables, 8 figures, A&A accepted

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The transition from the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) to the planetary nebula (PN) phase is critical in the shaping of PNe. It is suggested that the most asymmetric PNe are the descendant of massive AGB stars. Since these AGB stars are believed to evolve into heavily obscured post-AGB stars and PNe, the compilation of a sample of bona fide obscured post-AGB stars and PNe is important to help understand the formation of asymmetric PNe. We have used 2MASS, Spitzer GLIMPSE, MSX, and IRAS data in search of the near-IR counterparts of a sample of 165 presumably obscured IRAS post-AGB and PN candidates, and DSS red images to identify the optical counterparts among the objects detected in the near-IR. The IR spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the wavelength range from 1 to 100 microns of the sources with unambiguous near-IR counterparts have been analyzed using appropriate colour-colour diagrams. We have identified the near-IR counterparts of 119 sources out of the 165 IRAS post-AGB and PN candidates in our sample. The improved astrometric coordinates of these sources have allowed us to find optical counterparts for 59 of them, yielding a reduced sample of 60 optically obscured post-AGB star and PN candidates. Among the 119 sources with near-IR counterparts, only 80 have unambiguous identifications in the 2MASS Point Source Catalogue.

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