Candidate planetary nebulae in the IPHAS photometric catalogue

K. Viironen*, R. Greimel, R. L M Corradi, A. Mampaso, M. Rodríguez, L. Sabin, G. Delgado-Inglada, J. E. Drew, C. Giammanco, E. A. González-Solares, M. J. Irwin, B. Miszalski, Q. A. Parker, E. R. Rodríguez-Flores, A. Zijlstra

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    Abstract

    Context. We have carried out a semi-automated search for planetary nebulae (PNe) in the INT photometric H-alpha survey (IPHAS) catalogue. We present the PN search and the list of selected candidates. We cross correlate the selected candidates with a number of existing infrared galactic surveys in order to gain further insight into the nature of the candidates. Spectroscopy of a subset of objects is used to estimate the number of PNe present in the entire candidate list.Aims. The overall aim of the IPHAS PN project is to carry out a deep census of PNe in the northern Galactic plane, an area where PN detections are clearly lacking.Methods. The PN search is carried out on the IPHAS photometric catalogue. The candidate selection is based on the IPHAS and 2MASS/UKIDSS colours of the objects and the final candidate selection is made visually.Results. From the original list of ~600 million IPHAS detections we have selected a total of 1005 objects. Of these, 224 are known objects, leaving us with 781 PN candidates. Based on the initial follow-up spectroscopy, we expect the list to include very young and proto-PNe in addition to genuine, normal PNe (∼16%) and emission line objects other than PNe. We present additional criteria to select the most probable PN candidates from our candidate list..

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)291-301
    Number of pages11
    JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics
    Volume504
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2009

    Bibliographical note

    Copyright 2009 EDP Sciences, First published in Astronomy and astrophysics, Volume 504, Issue 1, published by EDP Sciences. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912002.

    Keywords

    • ISM: Planetary nebulae: General
    • Stars: Binaries: Symbiotic
    • Surveys

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