Faint planetary nebulae in Magellanic Clouds Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jacoby G.H.
  2. Kaler J.B.
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    CDS
Abstract

The accuracy of spectrophotometry for Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae is limited by a number of physical effects and operational difficulties: atmospheric dispersion, wavelength-dependent seeing, pointing and guiding errors, and a background of numerous stars and diffuse emission. We describe procedures to minimize the impact of some of these. We then compare our results for both bright and faint objects with published values. There are a few exceptional cases (e.g., LMC 89), but generally we find that bright planetary nebulae in the Clouds have been observed with high accuracy. On the other hand, observations of the faint sample from Jacoby (1980ApJS...42....1J) suffer seriously from many of these effects. We also compare published {lambda}5007 photometry with new CCD photometry for nine faint planetary nebulae. We find the photographic photometry presented by Jacoby (1980ApJS...42....1J) to be accurate to 0.26mag. Fluxes for the fainter objects that are derived from spectrophotometry (Boroson & Liebert, 1989ApJ...339..844B) are found to be less reliable. In comparison, spectrophotometry using the observational techniques presented in this paper provides reliable absolute fluxes. With these improved observations, we review the correlations presented by Kaler & Jacoby (1990ApJ...362..491K, 1991ApJ...382..134K) between abundance ratios and central star mass. The new results fit our earlier correlation for N/O, strengthen that for He/H, and change little about those for C/O and O/H.

Keywords
  1. magellanic-clouds
  2. planetary-nebulae
  3. spectroscopy
  4. chemical-abundances
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1993ApJ...417..209J
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.14170209

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2005-08-16T11:48:49Z
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