The VST photometric hα survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge (VPHAS+)

JE Drew, E Gonzalez-Solares, R Greimel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge
(VPHAS+) is surveying the southern Milky Way in u, g, r, i and Hα at∼ 1 arcsec angular …

The Hα surface brightness–radius relation: a robust statistical distance indicator for planetary nebulae

DJ Frew, QA Parker, IS Bojičić - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Measuring the distances to Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) has been an intractable
problem for many decades. We have now established a robust optical statistical distance …

HASH: the Hong Kong/AAO/Strasbourg Hα planetary nebula database

QA Parker, IS Bojičić, DJ Frew - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
By incorporating our major recent discoveries with re-measured and verified contents of
existing catalogues we provide, for the first time, an accessible, reliable, on-line SQL …

Planetary nebulae and how to find them: A concise review

QA Parker - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This review provides useful background and information on how we find, vet and compile
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) candidates and verify them. It presents a summary of the known …

First discovery of a fast radio burst at 350 mhz by the gbncc survey

E Parent, P Chawla, VM Kaspi, GY Agazie… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 20200125A, by the Green Bank
Northern Celestial Cap (GBNCC) Pulsar Survey conducted with the Green Bank Telescope …

SITELLE: an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope

L Drissen, T Martin, L Rousseau-Nepton… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present an overview of SITELLE, an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (iFTS)
available at the 3.6-m Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. SITELLE is a Michelson-type …

Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii AD 1437

MM Shara, K Iłkiewicz, J Mikołajewska, A Pagnotta… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract 'Cataclysmic variables' are binary star systems in which one star of the pair is a
white dwarf, and which often generate bright and energetic stellar outbursts. Classical novae …

New light on Galactic post-asymptotic giant branch stars–I. First distance catalogue

SB Vickers, DJ Frew, QA Parker… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We have commenced a detailed analysis of the known sample of Galactic post-asymptotic
giant branch (PAGB) objects compiled in the Toruń catalogue of Szczerba et al., and …

Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae Discovered Through Photometric Variability. V. The Central Stars of HaTr 7 and ESO 330-9

TC Hillwig, DJ Frew, N Reindl, H Rotter… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We find the central stars (CSs) of the planetary nebulae (PNe) HaTr 7 and ESO 330-9 to be
close-binary systems. Both have orbital periods of less than half a day and contain an …

The CHANDRA planetary nebula survey (ChanPlaNS). III. X-ray emission from the central stars of planetary nebulae

R Montez Jr, JH Kastner, B Balick, E Behar… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present X-ray spectral analysis of 20 point-like X-ray sources detected in Chandra
Planetary Nebula Survey observations of 59 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the solar …