Discovery of new planetary nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud

D. Draskovic; Q. A. Parker; W. A. Reid; M. Stupar

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/728/7/072008

Discovery of new planetary nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud

D. Draskovic, Q. A. Parker, W. A. Reid, M. Stupar

Western Sydney University

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We present six new planetary nebulae (PNe) discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) from deep UK Schmidt telescope (UKST) narrow band Hα and broad-band shortred “SR” continuum images and conﬁrmed spectroscopically. These 6 preliminary discoveries provide a 6% increase to the previously known SMC PN population of ∼100. Once spectroscopic follow-up of all our newly identiﬁed candidates is complete, we expect to increase the total number of known SMC PNe by up to 50%. This will permit a signiﬁcant improvement to determination of the SMC PN luminosity function (PNLF) and enable further insights into the chemical evolution and kinematics of the SMC PN population.

Original language	English
Article number	72008
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	728
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/728/7/072008
Publication status	Published - 2016

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