Magellanic Clouds Planetary Nebulae: an updated view on stellar evolution and populations

Stanghellini, Letizia; Shaw, Richard A.; Mutchler, Max

Magellanic Clouds Planetary Nebulae: an updated view on stellar evolution and populations

Authors

Stanghellini, Letizia

Shaw, Richard A.

Mutchler, Max

Description

Planetary Nebulae (PNs) in the Magellanic Clouds are studied to understand stellar populations and evolution of low- and intermediate-mass stars in different chemical environments. Using HST observations from our LMC and SMC PN morphological survey and from the HST Data Archive, we look at the relations between PN morphology and their evolution and populations. In this paper we show some of our recent results on these relations, in an historical context.
Invited talk. Proceedings of the conference "Ionized Gaseous Nebulae", Mexico City, November 21- 24, 2000; RMAA, in press