Bibcode
Dufour, R. J.; Kwitter, K. B.; Shaw, R. A.; Balick, B.; Henry, R. B. C.; Miller, T. R.; Corradi, R. L. M.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225, #139.02
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2015
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Description
This poster describes details of HST Cycle 19 (program GO 12600), which
was awarded 32 orbits of observing time with STIS to obtain the first
cospatial UV-optical spectra of 10 Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe). The
observational goal was to measure the UV emission lines of carbon and
nitrogen with unprecedented S/N and wavelength and spatial resolution
along the disk of each object over a wavelength range 1150-10270 Ang .
The PNe were chosen such that each possessed a near-solar metallicity
but the group together spanned a broad range in N/O. This poster
concentrates on describing the observations, emission-line measurements
integrated along the entire slit lengths, ionic abundances, and
estimated total elemental abundances using empirical ionization
correction factors and the ELSA code. Related posters by co-authors in
this session concentrate on analyzing CNO abundances, progenitor masses
and nebular properties of the best-observed targets using
photoionization modeling of the global emission-line measurements [Henry
et al.] or detailed analyses of spatial variations in electron
temperatures, densities, and abundances along the sub arcsecond
resolution slits [Miller et al. & Shaw et al.]. We gratefully
acknowledge AURA/STScI for the GO 12600 program support, both
observational and financial.