A catalogue of 108 extended planetary nebulae observed by GALEX
Ananta C. Pradhan, Swayamtrupta Panda, Mudumba Parthasarathy, Jayant, Murthy, Devendra K. Ojha

TL;DR
This paper catalogs 108 extended planetary nebulae observed by GALEX in ultraviolet, analyzing their sizes, shapes, luminosities, and emission line contributions, revealing most are UV-bright with diverse excitation conditions.
Contribution
It provides the first comprehensive UV catalog of extended planetary nebulae with detailed size, shape, luminosity, and emission line data, enhancing understanding of their UV properties.
Findings
Most PNe are larger in UV than in optical or radio.
FUV emission includes lines like N IV], CIV, and O III], while NUV includes C III] and C II.
Most PNe are very bright in UV, with diverse excitation conditions.
Abstract
We present the ultraviolet (UV) imaging observation of planetary nebulae (PNe) using archival data of Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). We found 358 PNe detected by GALEX in near-UV (NUV). We have compiled a catalogue of 108 extended PNe with sizes greater than 8 00 and provided the angular diameters for all the 108 extended PNe in NUV and 28 in FUV from the GALEX images considering 3{\sigma} surface brightness level above the background. Of the 108 PNe, 74 are elliptical, 24 are circular and 10 are bipolar in NUV with most being larger in the UV than in the radio, H{\alpha} or optical. We derived luminosities for 33 PNe in FUV (L FUV ) and 89 PNe in NUV (L NUV ) and found that most of the sources are very bright in UV. The FUV emission of the GALEX band includes contribution from prominent emission lines N IV] (1487 {\AA}), CIV (1550 {\AA}), and O III] (1661 {\AA}) whereas the NUV…
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