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New Planerary Nebulae towards the Galactic bulge

P. Boumis, S. Akras, P. A. M. van Hoof, G. C. Van de Steene, J. Papamastorakis, J. A. Lopez

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0605083

Abstract

New Planetary Nebulae (PNe) were discovered through an [O III] 5007 A emission line survey in the Galactic bulge region with l>0 deg. We detected 240 objects, including 44 new PNe. Deep Halpha+[N II] CCD images as well as low resolution spectra were obtained for the new PNe in order to study them in detail. Preliminary photo-ionization models of the new PNe with Cloudy resulted in first estimates of the physical parameters and abundances. They are compared to the abundances of Galactic PNe.

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