The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function

Autores
Valenzuela, Lucas M.; Jacoby, George H.; Remus, Rhea-Silvia; Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel; Méndez, Roberto H.
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2025
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For decades, the theoretical understanding of planetary nebulae (PNe) has remained in tension with the observed universal bright-end cutoff of the PN luminosity function (PNLF). The brightest younger PN populations have been observed to be fainter in their [OIII] emission than expected. Recent studies have proposed that circumnebular extinction is a key ingredient in bringing their brightness down to the observed level. In this work, we use the recently introduced PICS (PNe In Cosmological Simulations) framework to investigate the impact of different circumnebular extinction treatments on the modeled PNe and their PNLF for a large range of stellar ages and metallicities. We test how different slopes in the observed relation of extinction versus central star mass modify the bright-end cutoffs of the PNLF, finding that steeper slopes lead to large changes for young stellar populations. In contrast, the differences for older PNe are much smaller. However, for individual PNe, the extinctions observed in nearby galaxies appear to be much higher than the models predict, showing that improvements on both the modeling and observational sides are needed to gain a better understanding of the brightest and strongly extincted PNe. These findings further advance the theoretical foundation for interpreting observed extragalactic PN populations coming from more complex composite stellar populations in the future.
Fil: Valenzuela, Lucas M.. Ludwig-maximilians-universität München; Alemania
Fil: Jacoby, George H.. No especifíca;
Fil: Remus, Rhea-Silvia. Ludwig-maximilians-universität München; Alemania
Fil: Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Astrofísica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas. Instituto de Astrofísica La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Méndez, Roberto H.. University of Hawaii at Manoa; Estados Unidos
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planetary nebulae
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
parameter testing
modeling
circumnebular dust extinction
luminosity function
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spelling The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity functionValenzuela, Lucas M.Jacoby, George H.Remus, Rhea-SilviaMiller Bertolami, Marcelo MiguelMéndez, Roberto H.planetary nebulaeSolar and Stellar AstrophysicsAstrophysics of Galaxiesparameter testingmodelingcircumnebular dust extinctionluminosity functionhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1For decades, the theoretical understanding of planetary nebulae (PNe) has remained in tension with the observed universal bright-end cutoff of the PN luminosity function (PNLF). The brightest younger PN populations have been observed to be fainter in their [OIII] emission than expected. Recent studies have proposed that circumnebular extinction is a key ingredient in bringing their brightness down to the observed level. In this work, we use the recently introduced PICS (PNe In Cosmological Simulations) framework to investigate the impact of different circumnebular extinction treatments on the modeled PNe and their PNLF for a large range of stellar ages and metallicities. We test how different slopes in the observed relation of extinction versus central star mass modify the bright-end cutoffs of the PNLF, finding that steeper slopes lead to large changes for young stellar populations. In contrast, the differences for older PNe are much smaller. However, for individual PNe, the extinctions observed in nearby galaxies appear to be much higher than the models predict, showing that improvements on both the modeling and observational sides are needed to gain a better understanding of the brightest and strongly extincted PNe. These findings further advance the theoretical foundation for interpreting observed extragalactic PN populations coming from more complex composite stellar populations in the future.Fil: Valenzuela, Lucas M.. Ludwig-maximilians-universität München; AlemaniaFil: Jacoby, George H.. No especifíca;Fil: Remus, Rhea-Silvia. Ludwig-maximilians-universität München; AlemaniaFil: Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Astrofísica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas. Instituto de Astrofísica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Méndez, Roberto H.. University of Hawaii at Manoa; Estados UnidosFrontiers Media2025-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/289755Valenzuela, Lucas M.; Jacoby, George H.; Remus, Rhea-Silvia; Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel; Méndez, Roberto H.; The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function; Frontiers Media; Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences; 12; 11-2025; 1-82296-987XCONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2025.1709047/fullinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3389/fspas.2025.1709047info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2026-08-25T14:30:37Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/289755instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982026-08-25 14:30:37.379CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
title The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
spellingShingle The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
Valenzuela, Lucas M.
planetary nebulae
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
parameter testing
modeling
circumnebular dust extinction
luminosity function
title_short The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
title_full The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
title_fullStr The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
title_full_unstemmed The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
title_sort The PICS project: II. Circumnebular extinction variations and their effect on the planetary nebula luminosity function
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Valenzuela, Lucas M.
Jacoby, George H.
Remus, Rhea-Silvia
Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel
Méndez, Roberto H.
author Valenzuela, Lucas M.
author_facet Valenzuela, Lucas M.
Jacoby, George H.
Remus, Rhea-Silvia
Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel
Méndez, Roberto H.
author_role author
author2 Jacoby, George H.
Remus, Rhea-Silvia
Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel
Méndez, Roberto H.
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv planetary nebulae
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
parameter testing
modeling
circumnebular dust extinction
luminosity function
topic planetary nebulae
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
parameter testing
modeling
circumnebular dust extinction
luminosity function
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv For decades, the theoretical understanding of planetary nebulae (PNe) has remained in tension with the observed universal bright-end cutoff of the PN luminosity function (PNLF). The brightest younger PN populations have been observed to be fainter in their [OIII] emission than expected. Recent studies have proposed that circumnebular extinction is a key ingredient in bringing their brightness down to the observed level. In this work, we use the recently introduced PICS (PNe In Cosmological Simulations) framework to investigate the impact of different circumnebular extinction treatments on the modeled PNe and their PNLF for a large range of stellar ages and metallicities. We test how different slopes in the observed relation of extinction versus central star mass modify the bright-end cutoffs of the PNLF, finding that steeper slopes lead to large changes for young stellar populations. In contrast, the differences for older PNe are much smaller. However, for individual PNe, the extinctions observed in nearby galaxies appear to be much higher than the models predict, showing that improvements on both the modeling and observational sides are needed to gain a better understanding of the brightest and strongly extincted PNe. These findings further advance the theoretical foundation for interpreting observed extragalactic PN populations coming from more complex composite stellar populations in the future.
Fil: Valenzuela, Lucas M.. Ludwig-maximilians-universität München; Alemania
Fil: Jacoby, George H.. No especifíca;
Fil: Remus, Rhea-Silvia. Ludwig-maximilians-universität München; Alemania
Fil: Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Astrofísica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas. Instituto de Astrofísica La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Méndez, Roberto H.. University of Hawaii at Manoa; Estados Unidos
description For decades, the theoretical understanding of planetary nebulae (PNe) has remained in tension with the observed universal bright-end cutoff of the PN luminosity function (PNLF). The brightest younger PN populations have been observed to be fainter in their [OIII] emission than expected. Recent studies have proposed that circumnebular extinction is a key ingredient in bringing their brightness down to the observed level. In this work, we use the recently introduced PICS (PNe In Cosmological Simulations) framework to investigate the impact of different circumnebular extinction treatments on the modeled PNe and their PNLF for a large range of stellar ages and metallicities. We test how different slopes in the observed relation of extinction versus central star mass modify the bright-end cutoffs of the PNLF, finding that steeper slopes lead to large changes for young stellar populations. In contrast, the differences for older PNe are much smaller. However, for individual PNe, the extinctions observed in nearby galaxies appear to be much higher than the models predict, showing that improvements on both the modeling and observational sides are needed to gain a better understanding of the brightest and strongly extincted PNe. These findings further advance the theoretical foundation for interpreting observed extragalactic PN populations coming from more complex composite stellar populations in the future.
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