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The Southern Deep Near Infrared Survey (DENIS) a Prospect of PN Exploration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Stefan Kimeswenger
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie der Leopold–Franzens Universität, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Christoph Kienel
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie der Leopold–Franzens Universität, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Abstract

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The near infrared light is important for the exploration of proto-planetary nebulae as well as for the planetary nebulae in early phases (Persi et. al. 1986, in Planetary and Proto-Planetary Nebulae: From IRAS to ISO, ed A. P. Martinez). Numerous work on the fluxes of the well known planetary nebulae was already done in the late 80's, but a sky survey will give a large sample of data to provide more detailed statistics.

The present work presents an overview of the data on planetary nebulae expected from the European project of a deep near infrared survey of the southern sky (denis) (IAP and DESPA Paris, Heidelberg, Leiden, IAC Tenerife, Grenoble, Lyon, Frascati, Innsbruck, Vienna) in the I, J and K band with a limiting magnitude of 14.5 to 15 for point sources and 17 mag arcsec−1 for the surface brightness. The angular resolution for identification of non–point source objects will be about 5″.

Type
I. The Observational PN Database
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993 

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