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The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg H-alpha planetary
nebula project (MASH; Parker et al. 2006; Miszalski et al. 2008),
based on data from the AAO/UKST SuperCosmos Halpha survey of the
Southern Galactic Plane (SHS; Parker et al. 2005), has doubled the
number of known PNe in the
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< 5 deg
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< 5 deg region in the Galactic Bulge. Since this sample represents
an unrivaled, essentially co-located PN population at ~8kpc, it
provides unprecedented opportunites to define the [OIII] Galactic
Bulge Planetary Nebula Lumninosity Function (PNLF), unravel key PNe
physical parameters and eludicate inner Galactic structure. Using
the MOSAIC-II camera on the Blanco 4-m at CTIO in June 2008, we
observed 57% of Galactic Bulge Bulge PNe to establish accurate
fluxes with which to construct a new [OIII] luminosity function. We
anticipate >90% of the total known Bulge sample will have been
observed after our final CTIO observing run. The excellent deep data
also offers exciting prospects for new PNe discoveries. |
