Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-05-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 5 figures, invited talk at IAU Symp. 234, Planetary Nebulae in Our Galaxy and Beyond, M. J. Barlow and R. H. Mendez,
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921306003152
The properties of bright extragalactic planetary nebulae are reviewed based upon the results of low and high resolution spectroscopy. It is argued that bright extragalactic planetary nebulae from galaxies (or subsystems) with and without star formation have different distributions of central star temperature and ionization structure. As regards the chemical compositions, oxygen and neon are generally found to be unchanged as a result of the evolution of the stellar progenitors. Nitrogen enrichment may occur as a result of the evolution of the progenitors of bright planetary nebulae in all stellar populations, though this enrichment may be (more) random in old stellar populations. Helium abundances appear to be influenced by the chemical evolution of the host galaxy, with planetary nebulae in dwarf spheroidals having systematically elevated abundances. Neither the age nor the metallicity of the progenitor stellar population has a strong effect upon the kinematics observed for nebular shells. Both the range of expansion velocites, 8-28 km/s, and the typical expansion velocity, ~18 km/s, are found to be relatively constant in all galaxies. On the other hand, bright planetary nebulae in the bulge of M31 have systematically higher expansion velocities than their counterparts in M31's disk. The expansion velocities show no trend with nebular Hbeta luminosity, apart from a lack of large expansion velocities at the highest luminosities (the youngest objects), but appear to correlate with the 5007/Hbeta ratio, at least until this ratio saturates. These results suggest a link between the evolution of the nebular shells and central stars of bright extragalactic planetary nebulae.
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