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Deep imaging of type I PN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
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Progress in developing theories concerning the evolution of the central star and the surrounding planetary nebula requires a large, uniform set of data (monochromatic images, isophotes) which CCD imaging of PN can supply at present (Kaler, 1985; Balick 1987). One of the unknown parameters remains the mass budget of the (PN + central star) system. As a matter of fact, existing inventories of the measured ionised mass in PN reveal a shortfall as compared with theory. Nonetheless, since the major portion of the total mass loss occurs in the earlier ejection phases, a main objective was to detect the faint brightness peripheral nebular emissions and to provide quantitative measurement when possible of the global ionised mass.
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