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Douglas, N. G.

Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way

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Table of contents

Part I. Historical Overview

1. Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way – Historical Overview
Michael J. Barlow

Part II. Planetary Nebula Surveys

2. Surveys for Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
George H. Jacoby

3. H-alpha Stacked Images Reveal Large Numbers of PNe in the LMC
Warrenk Reid, Quentin Parker

4. The Census of Planetary Nebulae in the Local Group
Romano L.M. Corradi, Laura Magrini

5. Planetary Nebulae in the Outer Disk and Halo of M31
Alexei Kniazev, Eva K. Grebel, Dan Zucker, Eric Bell, Hugh Harris

6. Deep PN Surveys Beyond the Local Group
Roberto H. Méndez

7. Planetary Nebulae in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)
Eric W. Peng, Holland C. Ford, Kenneth C. Freeman

8. Extragalactic Planetary Nebula: Methods of Discovery Using Infrared Photometry
Pedro García-Lario, Amelia Bayo, Carlos Alfageme

9. Proposed Nomenclature for Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae
Quentin A. Parker, Agnes Acker

Part III. The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function

10. The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function
Robin Ciardullo

11. The PNLF Distance to the Sculptor Group Galaxy NGC 55
G.C. Van de Steene, G.H. Jacoby, C. Praet, R. Ciardullo, H. Dejonghe

Part IV. PN Stellar Progenitors

12. Mass Loss At the Tip of the AGB: Essentials for Population Synthesis
Lee Anne Willson

13. AGB Stars in the Local Group, and Beyond
M.A.T. Groenewegen

14. Abundance Gradients in Local Group Galaxies Using Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
Maria–Rosa Cioni

15. Red Giant Stars in NGC 5128
Marina Rejkuba

16. Molecules in the AGB Stars of Nearby Galaxies
M. Matsuura, A.A. Zijlstra, J.Th. van Loon, I. Yamamura

17. Clues on Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Evolution and Planetary Nebulae Populations from the Magellanic Clouds
L. Stanghellini

18. Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
Eva Villaver

19. Stellar Winds of Central Stars of the LMC PNe
Anabel Arrieta, L. Stanghellini

20. Parameters of PNe: Constant Density versus Density Distribution
Michaela Kraus

Part V. Physical Conditions of PNe

21. Plasma Diagnostics and Elemental Abundance Determinations for PNe – Current Status
Xiao-wei Liu

22. Probing Nebular Physical Conditions Using the Hydrogen Recombination Spectrum
Y. Zhang, X.-W. Liu, R. Wesson, P.J. Storey, Y. Liu, I.J. Danziger

23. A Reexamination of Electron Density Diagnostics for Ionized Gaseous Nebulae
W. Wang, X.-W. Liu, Y. Zhang, M.J. Barlow

24. Probing the Nebular Thermal Structure Using the He i Recombination Spectrum and Evidence Against Temperature Fluctuations and Density Inhomogeneities
Y. Zhang, X.-W. Liu, Y. Liu

25. Chemically Inhomogeneous Photoionization Modelling of the Planetary Nebula SMC N87
Yiannis G. Tsamis, Daniel Péquignot

26. An Optical Recombination Line Abundance Survey for Galactic Bulge Planetary Nebulae
W. Wang, X.-W. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu

27. MOCASSIN: 3D Photoionisation and Dust Radiative Transfer Modelling of PNe
Barbara Ercolano, M.J. Barlow, P.J. Storey, X.-W. Liu

28. C III] Imagery of Planetary Nebulae and Extragalactic H II Regions
R.J. Dufour, R.B.C. Henry, K.B. Kwitter, B.A. Buckalew, B.D. Moore, J. Bohigas, C. Esteban

29. CRIRES and VISIR, ESO’s Latest Tools for Infrared Studies of PNe beyond the Milky Way
Hans Ulrich Käufl

Part VI. PNe as Chemical Probes of Galaxies

30. Chemical Composition of Planetary Nebulae: The Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds
Walter J. Maciel, Roberto D.D. Costa, Thais E.P. Idiart

31. Planetary Nebulae in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Albert A. Zijlstra, Krzysztof Gesicki, J. Walsh, Daniel Péquignot

32. What PNe Could Tell About Extinction Inside External Galaxies
Joachim Köppen

33. Planetary Nebulae as Probes of the Chemical Evolution of Dynamically Hot Systems
Michael G. Richer, Marshall L. McCall

34. A Study of Chemical Abundances of Planetary Nebulae in M33
Mario Perinotto, Laura Magrini, Antonio Mampaso, Romano L.M. Corradi

35. The Inner Abundance Gradient of M33 from Bright Planetary Nebulae
Grazyna Stasinska, José M. Vílchez, Enrique Pérez, Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado, Romano L.M. Corradi, Antonio Mampaso, Laura Magrini

36. Crowded Field 3D Spectrophotometry of Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae
Martin M. Roth, Thomas Becker, Petra Böhm, Detlef Schönberner, Matthias Steffen, Katrina Exter

37. Extragalactic PNe Observed with 3D Spectroscopy
Katrina Exter, Petra Böhm, Thomas Becker, Martin Roth

38. Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae in Sextans A and Sextans B
Laura Magrini, Pierre Leisy, Romano L.M. Corradi, Mario Perinotto, Antonio Mampaso, José Vílchez

39. Local Group Census: The Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC6822
P. Leisy, L. Magrini, R.L.M. Corradi, A. Mampaso

40. Spectroscopy of PNe in Sextans A, Sextans B, NGC 3109 and Fornax
Alexei Y. Kniazev, Eva K. Grebel, Alexander G. Pramskij, Simon A. Pustilnik

41. Planetary Nebula Abundances in NGC 5128 with VLT FORS
J.R. Walsh, G. Jacoby, R. Peletier, N.A. Walton

Part VII. PNe as Kinematic Probes of Galaxies

42. Galaxy Dynamics and the PNe Population
N. G. Douglas

43. Mapping the Stellar Dynamics of M31
Helen Merrett, M. Merrifield, K. Kuijken, A. Romanowsky, N. Douglas, N. Napolitano, M. Arnaboldi, M. Capaccioli, K. Freeman, O. Gerhard, D. Carter, N.W. Evans, M. Wilkinson, C. Halliday, T. Bridges

44. A Keck/Deimos Survey of Red Giant Branch Stars in the Outskirts of M31
Annette M. N. Ferguson, Scott Chapman, Rodrigo Ibata, Mike Irwin, Geraint Lewis, Alan McConnachie

45. Planetary Nebulae in NGC 5128 with VLT FLAMES
Marina Rejkuba, J. R. Walsh

46. Probing Halos with PNe: Mass and Angular Momentum in Early-Type Galaxies
Aaron J. Romanowsky

47. Modelling Kinematics and Dark Matter: The Halos of Elliptical Galaxies
Ortwin Gerhard

48. Dynamics of Rotating Elliptical Galaxies
*Flavio De Lorenzi, Victor P. Debattista, Ortwin E. Gerhard

49. Dynamics of the NGC 4636 Globular Cluster System
Ylva Schuberth, Tom Richtler, Boris Dirsch, Michael Hilker, Leopoldo Infante, Søren Larsen, Markus Kissler-Patig

50. Dynamics of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697 from Integrated Light and PNe
Niranjan Sambhus, Flavio De Lorenzi, Ortwin Gerhard

51. Planetary Nebulae as Dynamical Tracers: Mass-to-Light-Ratio Gradients in Early-Type Galaxies
N.R. Napolitano, A.J. Romanowsky, M. Capaccioli, K. Kuijken, M.R. Merrifield, N.G. Douglas, M. Arnaboldi, K.C. Freeman, O. Gerhard

Part VIII. PNe in the Intracluster Environment

52. Intracluster Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Intracluster Starlight
John Feldmeier

53. Planetary Nebulae as Tracers of Galaxy Clusters
Magda Arnaboldi

54. Planetary Nebulae as Tracers of the Intergalactic Stellar Background: A Population Synthesis Theoretical Approach
Alberto Buzzoni, Magda Arnaboldi

55. The Survival of Planetary Nebulae in the Intracluster Medium
Eva Villaver, L. Stanghellini

Part IX. Prospects

56. Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae: Observational Challenges and Future Prospects
Quentin A. Parker, Richard Shaw

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