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2009A&A...498..463P - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 498, 463-470 (2009/5-1)

Survey of planetary nebulae at 30 GHz with OCRA-p.

PAZDERSKA B.M., GAWRONSKI M.P., FEILER R., BIRKINSHAW M., BROWNE I.W.A., DAVIS R., KUS A.J., LANCASTER K., LOWE S.R., PAZDERSKI E., PEEL M. and WILKINSON P.N.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the results of a survey of 442 planetary nebulae at 30GHz. The purpose of the survey is to develop a list of planetary nebulae as calibration sources that could be used for high frequency calibration in future. For 41 PNe with sufficient data, we test the emission mechanisms in order to evaluate whether or not spinning dust plays an important role in their spectra at 30GHz. The 30-GHz data were obtained with a twin-beam differencing radiometer, OCRA-p, which is in operation on the Torun 32-m telescope. Sources were scanned both in right ascension and declination. We estimated flux densities at 30GHz using a free-free emission model and compared it with our data. The primary result is a catalogue containing the flux densities of 93 planetary nebulae at 30GHz. Sources with sufficient data were compared with a spectral model of free-free emission. The model shows that free-free emission can generally explain the observed flux densities at 30GHz thus no other emission mechanism is needed to account for the high-frequency spectra.

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Journal keyword(s): radio continuum: general - planetary nebulae: general

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