A deep kinematic survey of planetary nebulae in the Andromeda galaxy using the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph
Abstract
We present a catalogue of positions, magnitudes and velocities for 3300 emission-line objects found by the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph in a survey of the Andromeda galaxy, M31. Of these objects, 2615 are found likely to be planetary nebulae (PNe) associated with M31. The survey area covers the whole of M31's disc out to a radius of [ image ]. Beyond this radius, observations have been made along the major and minor axes, and the Northern Spur and Southern Stream regions. The calibrated data have been checked for internal consistency and compared with other catalogues. With the exception of the very central, high surface brightness region of M31, this survey is complete to a magnitude limit of m5007~ 23.75, 3.5 mag into the PN luminosity function.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0603125
- Bibcode:
- 2006MNRAS.369..120M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted by MNRAS. 23 pages, 37 figures. A full resolution version is available at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~pns/pns_pub.html