J/ApJ/916/21ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/916/21doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19160021CDSRoth M.M.Jacoby G.H.Ciardullo R.Davis B.D.Chase O.Weilbacher P.M.2024-02-06T12:04:46Z2023-01-20T12:15:22ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frplanetary-nebulaeapparent-magnitudevisible-astronomyradial-velocityThe [OIII]{lambda}5007 planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) is an established distance indicator that has been used for more than 30yr to measure the distances of galaxies out to ~15Mpc. With the advent of the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer on the Very Large Telescope (MUSE) as an efficient wide-field integral-field spectrograph, the PNLF method is due for a renaissance, as the spatial and spectral information contained in the instrument's data cubes provides many advantages over classical narrowband imaging. Here we use archival MUSE data to explore the potential of a novel differential emission-line filter (DELF) technique to produce spectrophotometry that is more accurate and more sensitive than other methods. We show that DELF analyses are superior to classical techniques in high surface brightness regions of galaxies, and we validate the method both through simulations and via the analysis of data from two early-type galaxies (NGC 1380 and NGC 474) and one late-type spiral (NGC 628). We demonstrate that with adaptive optics support or under excellent seeing conditions, the technique is capable of producing precision (<~0.05mag) [OIII] photometry out to distances of 40Mpc while providing discrimination between planetary nebulae and other emission-line objects such as HII regions, supernova remnants, and background galaxies. These capabilities enable us to use MUSE to measure precise PNLF distances beyond the reach of Cepheids and the tip of the red giant branch method and become an additional tool for constraining the local value of the Hubble constant.2021ApJ...916...21Rhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/916/21CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toB/eso : ESO Science Archive Catalog (ESO, 1991-2022)J/ApJ/339/53 : Planetary nebulae as standard candles. II. (Ciardullo+, 1989)J/ApJ/344/704 : Planetary nebulae as standard candles. III. (Jacoby+, 1989)J/ApJ/356/332 : Planetary nebulae as standard candles. V. (Jacoby+, 1990)J/ApJ/416/62 : Planetary nebulae as standard candles. IX. (McMillan+, 1993)J/A+A/296/319 : Fornax cluster early-type galaxies (D'Onofrio+, 1995)J/ApJ/577/31 : PNe in six galaxies (Ciardullo+, 2002)J/AJ/123/269 : New SMC planetary nebulae (Jacoby+, 2002)J/ApJ/582/170 : M51 Planetary Nebula Candidates (Durrell+, 2003)J/ApJ/657/76 : Planetary nebula candidates in 3 galaxies (Feldmeier+, 2007)J/ApJ/703/894 : PNe in 5 nearby galaxies (Herrmann+, 2009)J/A+A/515/A35 : Reduction of integral-field spectrograph P3D (Sandin+, 2010)J/MNRAS/413/813 : ATLAS3D project. I. (Cappellari+, 2011)J/ApJS/197/21 : The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey (CGS). I. (Ho+, 2011)J/ApJ/792/45 : SPT-SZ survey galaxy clusters opt. spectroscopy (Ruel+, 2014)J/ApJS/221/13 : ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XI. GC candidates (Jordan+, 2015)J/A+A/579/A40 : PESSTO catalog (Smartt+, 2015)J/A+A/606/A12 : MUSE-Wide survey: 831 emission line galaxies (Herenz+, 2017)J/ApJ/847/18 : Mass, Z, dust attenuation, and SFR relations (Zahid+, 2017)J/A+A/618/A3 : NGC 300 MUSE spectroscopy for central fields (Roth+, 2018)J/A+A/621/A107 : MUSE-Wide Ly alpha luminosity function 3<z<6 (Herenz+, 2019)J/ApJ/876/85 : HST observations for LMC Cepheids (Riess+, 2019)J/A+A/639/A136 : The Fornax Deep Survey with the VST. IX. (Cantiello+, 2020)J/A+A/637/A62 : Fornax3D. Planetary nebulae detection (Spriggs+, 2020)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/916/21https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/916/21http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/916/21https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/916/21https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/916/21http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/916/21GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/916/21/table9 (Catalogue of PN candidates in NGC 1380)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table9?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table9?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table9?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true54.11597917-34.979916670.005555555555555556Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/916/21/table10 (Catalogue of PN candidates in NGC 628)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table10?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table10?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table10?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true24.1659458315.784283330.005555555555555556Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/916/21/table11 (Catalogue of PN candidates in NGC 474)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table11?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table11?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/916/21/table11?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true20.074991673.413458330.0055555555555555566/18209 18398 34534 34540https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/916/21?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/ApJ/916/21/table1MUSE exposures of the galaxiesNameGalaxy namemeta.id;meta.maincharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintObsUT date of observationstime.epoch;obsnullableSeeing[0.45/1.46] Seeingarcsecinstr.obsty.seeingfloatPIDProgram IDmeta.id;obscharExp[600/37312] Exposure timestime.duration;obs.exposureintTIDTarget IDmeta.idcharNote[1/2] Notesmeta.noteintJ/ApJ/916/21/table9Catalogue of PN candidates in NGC 1380IDSpSpriggs+ (2020, J/A+A/637/A62) recno (<F3D JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss> in Simbad)meta.id.crosscharSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlcharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSeq[1/149] PN candidate numbermeta.id;meta.mainintIDID in fieldmeta.idcharIDFmFeldmeier+ (2007, J/ApJ/657/76) IDmeta.id.crosscharXpixDatacube/image X pixel coordinatepixpos.framefloatYpixDatacube/image Y pixel coordinatepixpos.framefloatRAJ2000[3] Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000[34] Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainm5007[26.43/28.97] PN magnitudemagphot.mag;em.line.OIIIfloate_m5007[0.04/0.3] Uncertainty in m5007magstat.errorfloatArN[3.6/21.2] Amplitude-to-Noise ratio of OIII5007{AA}stat.snrfloatLOSV[1393/2275] Barycentric line-of-sight velocitykm/sphys.velocfloatJ/ApJ/916/21/table10Catalogue of PN candidates in NGC 628YpixDatacube/image Y pixel coordinatepixpos.framefloatRAJ2000[1] Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainIDHeHerrmann+ (2008ApJ...683..630H) ID (<[HC2009b] M74-NNN> in Simbad)meta.id.crosscharSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlcharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSeq[1/202] PN candidate numbermeta.id;meta.mainintIDID in fieldmeta.idcharXpixDatacube/image X pixel coordinatepixpos.framefloatDEJ2000[15] Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainm5007[25.4/29.1] PN magnitudemagphot.mag;em.line.OIIIfloate_m5007[0.017/0.4] Uncertainty in m5007magstat.errorfloatArN[-4/59] Amplitude-to-Noise ratio of OIII5007{AA}stat.snrfloatLOSV[510.9/813.2] Barycentric line-of-sight velocitykm/sphys.velocfloatJ/ApJ/916/21/table11Catalogue of PN candidates in NGC 474SimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlcharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSeq[1/15] PN candidate numbermeta.id;meta.mainintIDFeFensch et al. (2020A&A...644A.164F), IDmeta.id.crosscharXpixDatacube/image X pixel coordinatepixpos.framefloatYpixDatacube/image Y pixel coordinatepixpos.framefloatRAJ2000[1] Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000[3] Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainm5007[28.52/30.75] PN magnitudemagphot.mag;em.line.OIIIfloate_m5007[0.05/0.4] Uncertainty in m5007magstat.errorfloatArN[2/19.4] Amplitude-to-Noise ratio of OIII5007{AA}stat.snrfloatLOSV[5045/5047.3] Barycentric line-of-sight velocitykm/sphys.velocfloat