AAO Colloquium.

Monday 15th June 2009 - 3:30pm AAO Conference Room

Planetary Nebulae in our Galaxy and the binary hypothesis

Brent Miszalski

Macquarie and Strasbourg Universities

Abstract:
Brent will give a broad overview of the MASH-II Galactic PN discovery project using specially developed multi-wavelength data trawling and visualisation techniques. He will also discuss the work he has undertaken on addressing the important question of the binary fraction of the central stars of PN through his careful study of OLEIII photometry of their detected central stars and their related propensity for bipolar morphology.