Commission H3 Planetary Nebulae

Primers

NGC 2818, HST image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Background

Research into planetary nebulae is diverse. The topics range from the physics of compact objects to the tenuous interstellar medium, and includes, amongst others, stellar evolution, hydrodynamcs, radiative transfer, hydrodynamics, abundance studies, astrochemistry, and stellar population studies, with size scales that ranges from 10⁷ to 10¹⁷meters. It can be a daunting area for beginning graduate students. This site aims to provide some primers, short articles which introduce a topic at a level suitable for beginning students, including pointers at relevant papers. We hope it is useful.

Primers

• Planetary Nebulae and how to find them
  Quentin Parker
• Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae and related objects
  Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami
• Nebular Spectroscopy: A Guide on HII Regions and Planetary Nebulae
  Manuel Peimbert, Antonio Peimbert, and Gloria Delgado-Inglada

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