dc.creator | Gesicki, K. | |
dc.creator | Zijlstra, A.A. | |
dc.creator | Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-29T16:07:09Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-14T23:05:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-29T16:07:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-14T23:05:32Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-08-29T16:07:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06 | |
dc.identifier | Gesicki, K.; Zijlstra, A.A.; Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel; The mysterious age invariance of the planetary nebula luminosity function bright cut-off; Springer Nature; Nature Astronomy; 2; 7; 6-2018; 580-584 | |
dc.identifier | 2397-3366 | |
dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/82487 | |
dc.identifier | CONICET Digital | |
dc.identifier | CONICET | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/4317388 | |
dc.description.abstract | Planetary nebulae mark the end of the active life of 90% of all stars. They trace the transition from a red giant to a degenerate white dwarf. Stellar models predicted that only stars above approximately twice the solar mass could form a bright nebula. But the ubiquitous presence of bright planetary nebulae in old stellar populations, such as elliptical galaxies, contradicts this: Such high-mass stars are not present in old systems. The planetary nebula luminosity function, and especially its bright cut-off, is almost invariant between young spiral galaxies, with high-mass stars, and old elliptical galaxies, with only low-mass stars. Here, we show that new evolutionary tracks of low-mass stars are capable of explaining in a simple manner this decades-old mystery. The agreement between the observed luminosity function and computed stellar evolution validates the latest theoretical modelling. With these models, the planetary nebula luminosity function provides a powerful diagnostic to derive star formation histories of intermediate-age stars. The new models predict that the Sun at the end of its life will also form a planetary nebula, but it will be faint. | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0453-9 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0453-9 | |
dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/ | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | |
dc.subject | Interstellar medium | |
dc.subject | Stellar evolution | |
dc.title | The mysterious age invariance of the planetary nebula luminosity function bright cut-off | |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.type | info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo | |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |