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Caption: Figure 4.
Dust-to-gas mass ratio (R D/G) needed for a range of central stellar luminosities to produce ﹩{L}_{[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]}^{\mathrm{peak}}﹩ that matches the observed PNLF cutoff magnitude, for models with m ej = 0.1, 0.3, and 1.0M ⊙ For reference, 1–3M ⊙ progenitors can produce PNe hosting post-AGB stars of ∼8 × 103 L ⊙, and ≳5 × 104 L ⊙ for 6–10M ⊙ progenitors.
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