Abstract
The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg Hα Planetary Nebula Catalogue (MASH)
contains 903 new true, likely and possible Galactic Planetary Nebulae
(PNe) discovered from the AAO/UKST Hα survey of the southern
Galactic plane. The combination of depth, resolution, uniformity, and
areal coverage of the H {alpha}survey has opened up an hitherto
unexplored region of parameter space permitting the detection of this
significant new PN sample. This catalogue includes also the spectra of
the PNe as FITS files (in the "sp" subdirectory), and a gallery of
images created as a combination of the Hα and short red images of
the survey.
The second part, MASH-II (table mash2.dat) consists of over 300 true,
likely and possible new Galactic PNe found after re-examination of the
entire AAO/UKST Hα survey of the Southern Galactic Plane in
digital form. Over 240 of these new candidates were confirmed as bona
fide PNe on the basis of spectroscopic observations. The spectra of this
supplement will be available in the future.
(9 data files).
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2006 |
Keywords
- Planetary nebulae
- Surveys
- Photometry: H-alpha
- Spectroscopy