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The Origin of the Consistent Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function Bright-end Cutoff

  • Authors: Philippe Z. Yao, Eliot Quataert

Philippe Z. Yao and Eliot Quataert 2023 The Astrophysical Journal 957 .

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Peak [O III] 5007 Å luminosity (﹩{L}_{[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]}^{\mathrm{peak}}﹩) produced by a standard solar metallicity PNe simulated with CLOUDY. The stellar luminosity L ⋆,3 in the legend is in units of 103 L . The left panel assumes an ejecta mass of m ej = 0.1M and an effective stellar temperature T eff = 105 K, and varies the dust-to-gas mass ratio and central stellar luminosity. The orange-shaded region reflects the observed PNLF bright-end cutoff at M 5007 = −4.53 ± 0.06 translated to line luminosity from Ciardullo (2012). The right panel plots ﹩{L}_{[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]}^{\mathrm{peak}}﹩ as its ratio to the center stellar luminosity L . Here we assume a central stellar luminosity of 15,000L and an effective stellar temperature T eff = 105 K, and vary the ejecta mass and the dust-to-gas mass ratio.

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