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New kinematic distance scale for the Galactic planetary nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2012

Alexander F. Kholtygin ,
Igor' I. Nikiforov  and
Vitalii V. Akimkin
Alexander F. Kholtygin
Affiliation:
Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskij pr. 28, Staryj Peterhof, Saint Petersburg 198504, Russia email: afkholtygin@gmail.com
Igor' I. Nikiforov
Affiliation:
Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskij pr. 28, Staryj Peterhof, Saint Petersburg 198504, Russia email: afkholtygin@gmail.com
Vitalii V. Akimkin
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Russia
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Abstract

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We analyze the kinematics of disk planetary nebulae (PNe) to derive the formal Galactic center distance, R 0, for three catalogues of PNe distances. Then we correct the catalogues' distance scales renormalizing the PNe distances by the ratios of formal R 0 values to a best modern value of R 0 =7.9 kpc. The created new catalogue of disk's PNe distances was found to be in a good agreement with distances by Stanghellini et al. (2008). Our catalogue of PNe distances was used to recalibrate the statistical distance scale for all Galactic PNe.

Keywords

Planetary nebulae: generalGalaxy: kinematics and dynamics

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