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Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae: Observational Challenges & Future Prospects | Quentin A Parker & Richard Shaw
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8 Dec 2004 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | 1,2) & Richard Shaw ( Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Anglo-Australian Observatory, NOAO, USA | Abstract: | The study of extragalactic planetary nebulae (EPN) is a rapidly expanding field. The advent of powerful new instrumentation such as the PN spectrograph has led to an avalanche of new EPN discoveries both within and between galaxies. We now have thousands of EPN detections in a heterogeneous selection of nearby galaxies and their local environments, dwarfing the combined galactic detection efforts of the last century. Key scientific motivations driving this rapid growth in EPN research and discovery have been the use of the PNLF as a standard candle, as dynamical tracers of their host galaxies and dark matter and as probes of Galactic evolution. This is coupled with the basic utility of PN as laboratories of nebula physics and the consequent comparison with theory where population differences, abundance variations and star formation history within and between stellar systems informs both stellar and galactic evolution. Here we pose some of the burning questions, discuss some of the observational challenges and outline some of the future prospects of this exciting, relatively new, research area as we strive to go fainter, image finer, see further and survey faster than ever before and over a wider wavelength regime | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412176 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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