AAOmega radial velocities rule out current membership of the planetary nebula NGC 2438 in the open cluster M46
arXiv:0809.0327 · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13899.x
Abstract
We present new radial velocity measurements of 586 stars in a one-degree field centered on the open cluster M46, and the planetary nebula NGC 2438 located within a nuclear radius of the cluster. The data are based on medium-resolution optical and near-infrared spectra taken with the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We find a velocity difference of about 30 km/s between the cluster and the nebula, thus removing all ambiguities about the cluster membership of the planetary nebula caused by contradicting results in the literature. The line-of-sight velocity dispersion of the cluster is 3.9+/-0.3 km/s, likely to be affected by a significant population of binary stars.
6 pages + 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
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