Bibcode
Mampaso, A.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Viironen, K.; Leisy, P.; Greimel, R.; Drew, J. E.; Barlow, M. J.; Frew, D. J.; Irwin, J.; Morris, R. A. H.; Parker, Q. A.; Phillipps, S.; Rodríguez-Flores, E. R.; Zijlstra, A. A.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 458, Issue 1, October IV 2006, pp.203-212
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2006
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Description
Context: .The Isaac Newton Telescope Photometric Hα Survey (IPHAS)
is currently mapping the Northern Galactic plane reaching to r'=20 mag
with typically 1primeprime resolution. Hundreds of Planetary
Nebulae (PNe), both point-like and resolved, are expected to be
discovered. We report on the discovery of the first new PN from this
survey: it is an unusual object located at a large galactocentric
distance and has a very low oxygen abundance. Aims: .Detecting and
studying new PNe will lead to improved estimates of the population size,
binary fraction and lifetimes, and yield new insights into the chemistry
of the interstellar medium at large galactocentric distances.
Methods: .Compact nebulae are searched for in the IPHAS photometric
catalogue, selecting those candidates with a strong Hα excess in
the r'-Hα vs. r'-i' colour-colour diagram. Searches for extended
nebulae are by visual inspection of the mosaics of continuum-subtracted
Hα images at a spatial sampling of 5×5 arcsec^2. Follow-up
spectroscopy enables confirmation of the PNe, and their physico-chemical
study. Results: .The first planetary nebula discovered via IPHAS
imagery shows an intricate morphology: there is an inner ring
surrounding the central star, bright inner lobes with an enhanced waist,
and very faint lobular extensions reaching up to more than 100''. We
classify it as a quadrupolar PN, a rather unusual class of planetary
showing two pairs of misaligned lobes. From long-slit spectroscopy we
derive T_e[ Nii] =12 800±1000 K, Ne = 390±40
cm-3, and chemical abundances typical of Peimbert's type I
nebulae (He/H =0.13, N/O =1.8) with an oxygen abundance of
12+log(O/H)=8.17±0.15. A kinematic distance of
7.0+4.5-3.0 kpc is derived, implying an unusually
large size of >4 pc for the nebula. The photometry of the central
star indicates the presence of a relatively cool companion. This, and
the evidence for a dense circumstellar disk and quadrupolar morphology,
all of which are rare among PNe, support the hypothesis that this
morphology is related to binary interaction.