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Observations of photometric profiles of two planetary nebulae

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It is noted that the Abel integral of a Gaussian function is a Gaussian function. This special property is used in order to develop an analytic method for studying photometric profile in Planetary Nebulae. Monochromatic observations have been made at the Haute-Provence Observatory using the RCA-CCD (320×512 pixels) mounted at theF/6 Newtonian focus of the 1.2 m telescope. Among the observed nebulae, two of them (NGC 6778 and NGC 7354) are regular enough to test the photometric profile method. The nebular emissivity per volume unit is then obtained for H+ and O++ ions.

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Louise, R., Kherous, A. Observations of photometric profiles of two planetary nebulae. Astrophys Space Sci 176, 149–162 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00643086

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