The origin of the most luminous Planetary Nebulae
Abstract
As part of a systematic effort to characterize the properties and progenitors of the most luminous planetary nebulae (PNe), we obtained a sample among the brightest PNe in two stellar systems of different metallicities: LMC (Z/Z⊙~0.5) and M31 (Z/Z⊙~1) by means of a combined effort with the VLT and the 10mGTC. Modelling of these data will allow us to infer the masses of the stellar progenitors, gaining insights into the controversial origin of the universal cutoff of the Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function (PNLF).
- Publication:
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Planetary Nebulae: Multi-Wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..323..386G
- Keywords:
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- Planetary Nebulae: general;
- galaxies: abundances;
- galaxies: M31;
- LMC;
- ISM: evolution