We recalculated the distance to 554 galactic Planetary Nebulae (PNe) using the relation between the ionized mass of the nebula μ and the optical thickness parameter τ obtained by Akimkin et al. [1]. We classified these nebulae according to the Peimbert [9] types modified by Quireza et al. [11]. The obtained by us distances to galactic PNe were used to obtain the scale heights h for different subsystem of the Milky Way. Next values if h were estimated: h = 208 ± 10 pc for thin disk objects, h = 600 ± 54 pc for thick disk ones, and h = 1378 ± 180 pc for halo PNe.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012016
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume1038
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Jun 2018
EventInternational Conference PhysicA.SPb 2017 - Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: 24 Oct 201726 Oct 2017

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