2008/07/01 by Letizia Stanghellini
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Educational Leadership and Practices #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
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Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 256, The Magellanic System; van Loon abd Oliveira (Eds.)
openalex publication_date 2008/07/01 · arxiv created 2008/10/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
Abstract In this review we address the progress that has been made toward the understanding of Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae (PNe) and their evolution since the last Magellanic Cloud Symposium. Planetary nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds are the key probes of stellar and circumstellar evolution, both for their known distances and relative vicinity, and for their broad metallicity range A selection of recent results is presented, including the HST study of PNe and their central stars, the study of the population of Magellanic Cloud PNe based on abundance analysis, the recent Spitzer analysis of their dust contents, and the use of Magellanic Cloud PNe to constrain the distance scale of Galactic PNe.