13 papers
The s-process at Subsolar Metallicity: Insights from High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae
N. C. Sterling, M. G. Stephenson, Harriet L. Dinerstein +8
We present observations of 12 Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae (PNe) obtained with the high-resolution near-infrared spectrometer IGRINS on Gemini South. In 10 targets we detect…
Investigating the electron temperature of [Ar IV] in planetary nebulae using the DESIRED database
J. GarcÃa-Rojas, E. Reyes-RodrÃguez, J. E. Méndez-Delgado +9
(Abridged) We investigate the behaviour of the electron temperature derived from [Ar IV] lines, Te([Ar IV]), in a sample of PNe to characterize the thermal structure of high-excita…
A comparative study of O, Ne, Cl, and Ar in Hii regions and PNe of the Galactic disk: Temporal evolution of radial gradients?
Alexia Amayo, Leticia Carigi, José Eduardo Méndez-Delgado +2
(Abridged) We compare the radial abundance gradients of O, Ne, Cl, and Ar using a sample of 42 HII regions and 176 planetary nebulae (PNe) from the DESIRED catalogue in the Galacti…
The DESIRED temperature-metallicity relations in star-forming regions: probing the Galactic radial and azimuthal metallicity distributions
I. Rafael MartÃnez-Hernández, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, César Esteban +17
We analyse a sample of 225 star-forming regions from the DESIRED-E project, each with simultaneous determinations of the electron temperature from ionized nitrogen and oxygen, $T_{…
WEAVE imaging spectroscopy of NGC 6720: an iron bar in the Ring
R. Wesson, J. E. Drew, M. J. Barlow +23
We present spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of the planetary nebula NGC 6720, the Ring Nebula, taken during the science verification phase of WEAVE, a new instrument m…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Northern Local Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies. Analogues of the First Galaxies and Probes of the Cosmic Metallicity Scale
C. Esteban, J. M. Vilchez, J. GarcÃa-Rojas +15
Star-forming dwarf galaxies in the local Universe, especially extremely metal-poor ones, can be considered analogous to early galaxies of the Epoch of Reionization (z >= 6). Curren…