The Mid-Infrared Colours of Galactic Bulge, Disk and Magellanic Planetary Nebulae

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2009-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/0909.2069v1

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 396, 1915-1928 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

14 pages, 9 figures, Publicated in MNRAS. 58 pages in arXiv

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14846.x

We present mid-infrared (MIR) photometry for 367 Galactic disk, bulge and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) planetary nebulae, determined using GLIMPSE II and SAGE data acquired using the Spitzer Space Telescope. This has permitted us to make a comparison between the luminosity functions of bulge and LMC planetary nebulae, and between the MIR colours of all three categories of source. It is determined that whilst the 3.6 microns luminosity function of the LMC and bulge sources are likely to be closely similar, the [3.6]-[5.8] and [5.8]-[8-0] indices of LMC nebulae are different from those of their disk and bulge counterparts. This may arise because of enhanced 6.2 microns PAH emission within the LMC sources, and/or as a result of differences between the spectra of LMC PNe and those of their Galactic counterparts. We also determine that the more evolved disk sources listed in the MASH catalogues of Parker et al. and Miszalski et al. (2008) have similar colours to those of the less evolved (and higher surface brightness) sources in the catalogue of Acker et al. (1992); a result which appears at variance with previous studies of these sources.

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