Galactic PNe statistical distance scale Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Zhang C.Y.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

A statistical distance scale is proposed. It is based on the correlation between the ionized mass and the radius and the correlation between the radio continuum surface brightness temperature and the nebular radius. The proposed statistical distance scale is an average of the two distances obtained using the correlations. These correlations, calibrated on the 132 planetary nebulae with well-determined individual distances by Zhang, can reproduce not only the average distance of a sample of Galactic Bulge planetary nebulae exactly at the distance to the Galactic center, but also the expected gaussian distribution of their distances around the Galactic center. This new distance scale is applied to 647 Galactic planetary nebulae. It is estimated that this distance scale can be accurate on average to 35%-50%. Our statistical distance scale is in good agreement with the one recently proposed by Van de Steene and Zijlstra

Keywords
  1. planetary-nebulae
  2. stellar-distance
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1995ApJS...98..659Z
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/98/659
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/98/659
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.20980659

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/98/659
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/98/659
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/98/659
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History

1997-12-09T21:29:26Z
Resource record created
1997-12-09T20:29:30Z
Updated
1997-12-09T21:29:26Z
Created

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