TY - JOUR
T1 - Planetary Nebulae in the UWISH2 survey
AU - Gledhill, Timothy
AU - Froebrich, Dirk
AU - Campbell-White, J.
AU - Jones, Alex
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PY - 2018/9/21
Y1 - 2018/9/21
N2 - Near-infrared imaging in the 1 - 0 S(1) emission line of molecular hydrogen is able to detect planetary nebulae (PNe) that are hidden from optical emission line surveys.We present images of 307 objects from the UWISH2 survey of the northern Galactic Plane, and with the aid of mid-infrared colour diagnostics draw up a list of 291 PN candidates. The majority, 183, are newdetections and 85 per cent of these are not present in Hα surveys of the region.We find that more than half (54 per cent) of the objects have a bipolar morphology and that some objects previously considered as elliptical or point-source in Hα imaging, appear bipolar in UWISH2 images. By considering a small subset of objects for which physical radii are available from the Hα surface brightness-radius relation, we find evidence that the H
2 surface brightness remains roughly constant over a factor 20 range of radii from 0.03 to 0.6 pc, encompassing most of the visible lifetime of a PN. This leads to the Hα surface brightness becoming comparable to that of H
2 at large radius (>0.5 pc). By combining the number of UWISH2 PNe without Hα detection with an estimate of the PN detection efficiency in H
2 emission, we estimate that PN numbers from Hα surveys may underestimate the true PN number by a factor between 1.5 and 2.5 within the UWISH2 survey area.
AB - Near-infrared imaging in the 1 - 0 S(1) emission line of molecular hydrogen is able to detect planetary nebulae (PNe) that are hidden from optical emission line surveys.We present images of 307 objects from the UWISH2 survey of the northern Galactic Plane, and with the aid of mid-infrared colour diagnostics draw up a list of 291 PN candidates. The majority, 183, are newdetections and 85 per cent of these are not present in Hα surveys of the region.We find that more than half (54 per cent) of the objects have a bipolar morphology and that some objects previously considered as elliptical or point-source in Hα imaging, appear bipolar in UWISH2 images. By considering a small subset of objects for which physical radii are available from the Hα surface brightness-radius relation, we find evidence that the H
2 surface brightness remains roughly constant over a factor 20 range of radii from 0.03 to 0.6 pc, encompassing most of the visible lifetime of a PN. This leads to the Hα surface brightness becoming comparable to that of H
2 at large radius (>0.5 pc). By combining the number of UWISH2 PNe without Hα detection with an estimate of the PN detection efficiency in H
2 emission, we estimate that PN numbers from Hα surveys may underestimate the true PN number by a factor between 1.5 and 2.5 within the UWISH2 survey area.
KW - Infrared: stars
KW - Planetary nebulae: general
KW - Stars: evolution
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/sty1580
DO - 10.1093/mnras/sty1580
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 479
SP - 3759
EP - 3777
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 3
M1 - sty1580
ER -