Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Garching, Germany, 19-21 May, 2004 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia)

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way – Historical Overview....Pages 3-14
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Surveys for Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 17-29
H-alpha Stacked Images Reveal Large Numbers of PNe in the LMC....Pages 30-35
The Census of Planetary Nebulae in the Local Group....Pages 36-45
Planetary Nebulae in the Outer Disk and Halo of M31....Pages 46-48
Deep PN Surveys Beyond the Local Group....Pages 49-58
Planetary Nebulae in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)....Pages 59-66
Extragalactic Planetary Nebula: Methods of Discovery Using Infrared Photometry....Pages 67-71
Proposed Nomenclature for Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae....Pages 72-75
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The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function....Pages 79-90
The PNLF Distance to the Sculptor Group Galaxy NGC 55....Pages 91-95
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Mass Loss At the Tip of the AGB: Essentials for Population Synthesis....Pages 99-107
AGB Stars in the Local Group, and Beyond....Pages 108-120
Abundance Gradients in Local Group Galaxies Using Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars....Pages 121-125
Red Giant Stars in NGC 5128....Pages 126-130
Molecules in the AGB Stars of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 131-135
Clues on Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Evolution and Planetary Nebulae Populations from the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 136-146
Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 147-158
Stellar Winds of Central Stars of the LMC PNe....Pages 159-160
Parameters of PNe: Constant Density versus Density Distribution....Pages 161-165
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Plasma Diagnostics and Elemental Abundance Determinations for PNe – Current Status....Pages 169-182
Probing Nebular Physical Conditions Using the Hydrogen Recombination Spectrum....Pages 183-183
A Reexamination of Electron Density Diagnostics for Ionized Gaseous Nebulae....Pages 184-189
Probing the Nebular Thermal Structure Using the He i Recombination Spectrum and Evidence Against Temperature Fluctuations and Density Inhomogeneities....Pages 190-191
Chemically Inhomogeneous Photoionization Modelling of the Planetary Nebula SMC N87....Pages 192-193
An Optical Recombination Line Abundance Survey for Galactic Bulge Planetary Nebulae....Pages 194-195
MOCASSIN: 3D Photoionisation and Dust Radiative Transfer Modelling of PNe....Pages 196-198
C III] Imagery of Planetary Nebulae and Extragalactic H II Regions....Pages 199-200
CRIRES and VISIR, ESO’s Latest Tools for Infrared Studies of PNe beyond the Milky Way....Pages 201-205
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Chemical Composition of Planetary Nebulae: The Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 209-214
Planetary Nebulae in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy....Pages 215-216
What PNe Could Tell About Extinction Inside External Galaxies....Pages 217-219
Planetary Nebulae as Probes of the Chemical Evolution of Dynamically Hot Systems....Pages 220-231
A Study of Chemical Abundances of Planetary Nebulae in M33....Pages 232-233
The Inner Abundance Gradient of M33 from Bright Planetary Nebulae....Pages 234-238
Crowded Field 3D Spectrophotometry of Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae....Pages 239-243
Extragalactic PNe Observed with 3D Spectroscopy....Pages 244-246
Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae in Sextans A and Sextans B....Pages 247-251
Local Group Census: The Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC6822....Pages 252-256
Spectroscopy of PNe in Sextans A, Sextans B, NGC 3109 and Fornax....Pages 257-261
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Planetary Nebula Abundances in NGC 5128 with VLT FORS....Pages 262-266
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Galaxy Dynamics and the PNe Population....Pages 269-280
Mapping the Stellar Dynamics of M31....Pages 281-285
A Keck/Deimos Survey of Red Giant Branch Stars in the Outskirts of M31....Pages 286-291
Planetary Nebulae in NGC 5128 with VLT FLAMES....Pages 292-293
Probing Halos with PNe: Mass and Angular Momentum in Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 294-298
Modelling Kinematics and Dark Matter: The Halos of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 299-310
Dynamics of Rotating Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 311-315
Dynamics of the NGC 4636 Globular Cluster System....Pages 316-317
Dynamics of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697 from Integrated Light and PNe....Pages 318-323
Planetary Nebulae as Dynamical Tracers: Mass-to-Light-Ratio Gradients in Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 324-328
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Intracluster Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Intracluster Starlight....Pages 331-342
Planetary Nebulae as Tracers of Galaxy Clusters....Pages 343-354
Planetary Nebulae as Tracers of the Intergalactic Stellar Background: A Population Synthesis Theoretical Approach....Pages 355-360
The Survival of Planetary Nebulae in the Intracluster Medium....Pages 361-362
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Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae: Observational Challenges and Future Prospects....Pages 365-368