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Distance scale calibration from kinematic analysis of an ensemble of the galactic planetary nebulae
V.V. Akimkin1, I.I. Nikiforov2, A.F. Kholtygin
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Astronomical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Received 1 February, 2012

We study the kinematics of ensembles of planetary nebulae (PNe) of the Galactic disk using the PN distance catalogues by Acker (1978), Cahn et al. (1992), and Phillips (2004). Formal values for the Galactic center distance, R0 , derived from kinematic analysis of the PNe with distance scales accepted in the catalogues were found to be low, from 5 to 7 kpc. To correct these underestimated distance scales we renormalized the PN distances using the ratios of formal R0 values to a best modern value of R0 = 7.9 kpc deduced from many original estimates. A new catalogue of distances for the Galactic disk's PNe was created by averaging the kinematically corrected distances to PNe obtained for the catalogues mentioned above. New distances for Peimbert's types I and II PNe are in a good agreement with distances by Stanghellini et al. (2008). Our new catalog of PNe distances was used to recalibrate statistical distance scales for all types of PNe. Keywords: Galaxy; Planetary nebulae; Kinematics; Distance scales; Galactic center distance

A study of an ensemble of the galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) is a popular tool to test the models of the Galactic evolution [15]. However, the distances to PNe are badly known. More or less exact distances found from the trigonometric parallaxes of the central stars of PNe are known only for 16 ob jects [11]. For the great ma jority of galactic PNe one has to use statistical distance scales, whose calibrations are based on the reliability of the individually known PN distances. Unfortunately, the individual distances to PNe obtained by various methods are often strongly different. Stanghellini et al. [21] used the Magellanic Cloud PNe as the distance calibrators. It should be mentioned that the exactness of the distance to the Magellanic Clouds themselves is not very high (e.g. [6, 17]). In this work, we try to calibrate existing distance scales for Galactic disk PNe applying the spatially-kinematic modeling the PN ensemble ­ the method proposed by Nikiforov and Bobrova [16]. It assumes a cylindrical model of the rotation of PNe, it means that the rotation velocity of any PN depends only on its distance to the rotation axis of the Milky Way and does not depend on its height over the Galactic plane. Having an ensemble of the ob jects with known heliocentric distances and radial


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velocities we can find the optimal parameters of a model of among them the distance of the Sun to the Galactic center, of such approach are described by Kholtygin et al. [13]. As PN distance catalogues [1, 2, 18] and the catalogue of radial
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For each catalogue we obtain the model parameters. The resulting formal value (f ) for the distance to the Galactic center, R0 , is used to correct the scale of distances (b) (f ) to nebulae in the catalogue considered. The correction factor is Gscale = R0 /R0 , (b) where R0 =7.9 ± 0.2 kpc is the "best value" for R0 derived from an combination of corr results published [17]. The corrected distances ri to PN can be calculated as
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at r < 5 kpc the distances from [21] are 15­20% lower then ours (see Fig. 1, right panel). In the left panel of Fig. 2 we plot our distances against those found from the trigonometric [11] and spectroscopic parallaxes [4], from an analysis of the expansion of nebulae [8, 9, 10, 14], from the interstellar extinction in environments of nebulae [7, 12] and also the distances to PNe which are members of open clusters [3]. We see a good agreement between our data and the individual distances. In the right panel of Fig. 2 we compare our distances and those found by Stanghellini et al. [21] with the most exact values of distances derived by Harris et al. [11]. We see that our data are in a good agreement with those from [11]. The statistical distances by Stanghellini et al. [21] are based on a calibration of relation between the ionized mass of PN µ = 1.505в10-3 r5/2 3/2F 1/2 and the optical 42 thickness parameter = log . Here r is the distance to an PN in parsecs, is F the nebular radius in arcseconds, and F is the nebular flux at 5 GHz. The fit to the distance scale based on our kinematically calibrated PN distances is log µ = 0.08 - 1.04 , 2.89, 0.69 - 2.80 , 2.89. (2)

In Fig. 3 we demonstrate the quality of the fit (2). This fit gives us a better agreement with the individual distances to PNe than any other statistical scale.

Acknowledgements The work is partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant 08-02-00361 and the Russian President Grant for State Support of Leading Scientific School of Russia no. NSh-3290.2010.2.
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