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The Central Stars Parameters and the Distances to Galactic Planetary Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

O. I. Sharova*
Affiliation:
Radio physical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

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In our paper (Sharova, 1995) a method of determining the distances to galactic planetary nebulae has been based on the recently established (Sharova, 1992) regression relationship between the central stars radius and the temperature. Now our scale is compared to 18 other scales, in four of which the central stars parameters also are used, instead of nebulae ones. The scale distance estimations DS are compared with independently known individual distance D. The values log(DS/D) and their dependence on radius of the nebulae are analysed. Each scale is described by two parameters: a geometrical average value < log DS/D > and the relation ρ/ρc, where ρ is the correlation coefficient for log DS/D — log RN, and ρc is its critical value. If ρ/ρc > 1, the correlation is significant with the confidence probability 95%. For example we obtained the following results: ρ/ρc = 0.153, 0.494, 2.126, 2.228; < DS/D >=0.999, 2.145, 2.126, 1.414 for our scale and for widely known MKH, CKL, VdSZ scales respectively. By both criteria our scale achieves better agreements, on average, with individual estimations of distances than others.

Type
Part II: Planetary Nebulae Surveys and their Distribution in Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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