Orientation of galactic bulge planetary nebulae toward the Galactic center
Abstract
We have used the Wide Field Spectrograph on the Australian National University 2.3-m telescope to perform the integral field spectroscopy for a sample of the Galactic planetary nebulae. The spatially resolved velocity distributions of the Hα emission line were used to determine the kinematic features and nebular orientations. Our findings show that some bulge planetary nebulae toward the Galactic center have a particular orientation.
- Publication:
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Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time
- Pub Date:
- February 2016
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1412.0012
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUS..312..128D
- Keywords:
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- Galaxy: bulge;
- planetary nebulae: general;
- Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 2 pages, 1 figure, presented as a poster at the IAU Symposium 312 "Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time", Beijing, China, 2014