UV-NIR spectra of two planetary nebulae with X-Shooter
Abstract
The ESO VLT spectrograph X-shooter is currently the only one capable of observing the range from 330 nm up to 2.5 μm in a single shot. X-shooter is very suitable for study of the many diagnostic emission lines in PN providing a uniform flux scale at medium resolution over a large instantaneous wavelength range. Spectroscopy of two contrasting PNe, NGC 6302 and M 2-9, were observed and methods explored for identification of the many fitted emission lines.
- Publication:
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Planetary Nebulae: An Eye to the Future
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312012161
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..283..508S
- Keywords:
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- planetary nebulae: individual (M2-9;
- NGC 6302);
- techniques: spectroscopic