Planetary Nebulae Detected in the AKARI Far-IR All-Sky Survey Maps
Abstract
The AKARI Far-IR All-Sky Survey (AFASS) maps produced by the AKARI Infrared Astronomical Satellite enabled us to probe the far-IR sky for objects having surface brightnesses greater than a few to a couple of dozen MJy sr-1. Recently, we have verified that, if AFASS-measured fluxes are properly corrected for using the aperture correction method based on the empirical point-spread-function templates derived directly from the AFASS maps, point-source photometry measured from the AFASS maps reproduces fluxes in the AKARI bright source catalogue (BSC). We have surveyed the far-IR sky in the AFASS for Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) based on the University of Hong Kong/Australian Astronomical Observatory/Strasbourg Observatory Hα Planetary Nebula database (HASHPNDB), preliminarily yielding far-IR fluxes for roughly 1000 Galactic PNe including a few hundreds of PNe not listed in the AKARI/BSC.
- Publication:
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Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921318006452
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..343..522U
- Keywords:
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- planetary nebulae: general;
- circumstellar matter;
- stars: mass loss;
- infrared: stars;
- surveys