Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury IX: A Photometric Survey of Planetary Nebulae in M31
| Autor: | Julianne J. Dalcanton, Léo Girardi, Karl D. Gordon, Jason S. Kalirai, Benjamin F. Williams, Anil C. Seth, Mark J. Veyette, Bruce Balick, Philip Rosenfield, Nelson Caldwell, Morgan Fouesneau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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FOS: Physical sciences
individual (M31) [galaxies] Advanced Camera for Surveys LOCAL GROUP GALAXIES SPECTROGRAPH general [planetary nebulae] KINEMATICS EXCITATION-CLASS Large Magellanic Cloud Spectrograph Physics Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics PARAMETER REGIONS Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Planetary nebula EVOLUTION Galaxy Andromeda Stars Physics and Astronomy Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) DIGITAL SKY SURVEY LARGE-MAGELLANIC-CLOUD Wide Field Camera 3 STARS |
| Zdroj: | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL |
| ISSN: | 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1407.4391 |
| Popis: | We search Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) broadband imaging data from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey to identify detections of cataloged planetary nebulae (PNe). Of the 711 PNe currently in the literature within the PHAT footprint, we find 467 detected in the broadband. For these 467 we are able to refine their astrometric accuracy from ~0."3 to 0."05. Using the resolution of HST, we are able to show that 152 objects currently in the catalogs are definitively not PNe, and we show that 32 objects thought to be extended in ground-based images are actually point-like and therefore good PN candidates. We also find one PN candidate that is marginally resolved. If this is a PN, it is up to 0.7 pc in diameter. With our new photometric data, we develop a method of measuring the level of excitation in individual PNe by comparing broadband and narrowband imaging and describe the effects of excitation on a PN's photometric signature. Using the photometric properties of the known PNe in the PHAT catalogs, we search for more PN, but do not find any new candidates, suggesting that ground-based emission-line surveys are complete in the PHAT footprint to F475W $\simeq$ 24. Comment: 41 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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