Overview
- First book specifically devoted to planetary nebulae beyond the milky way
Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)
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Table of contents (56 papers)
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Front Matter
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Historical Overview
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Front Matter
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Planetary Nebula Surveys
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Front Matter
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The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
In the last decade extra-galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) have gained increasing importance. Improved observational capabilities have allowed fainter and fainter PNe to be studied in galaxies well beyond the Milky Way. Planetary nebulae can be detected to at least 30Mpc. They are found in galaxies of all types and also between the galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters. They are valuable as probes, both for providing the velocity of their host stars and also the evolutionary status and relation to the stellar population from which they formed.
This book contains the proceedings of a workshop held at ESO headquarters in Garching in 2004, the first meeting devoted entirely to Extra-galactic Planetary Nebulae. A wide range of topics is covered, from stellar and nebular astrophysics to galactic dynamics and galaxy clusters, making this volume a unique and timely reference of broad astrophysical interest.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Garching, Germany, 19-21 May, 2004
Editors: L. Stanghellini, J. R. Walsh, N. G. Douglas
Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11604792
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-31011-2Published: 05 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06818-8Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-34270-0Published: 30 July 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-2433
Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 371
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles