Poster abstract details

Gaia future contribution to the study of Planetary Nebulae

M. Manteiga, B. Arcay, A. Ulla, A. Aller, L.F. Miranda, Y. Isasi

Abstract

Gaia, the forthcoming astrometric ESA survey, is expected to contribute significantly to our knowledge on the distance to galactic PNe. Beside providing information about parallax and proper motions of the sources, Gaia will be equiped with two spectrophotometers that will allow to obtain the SEDs in the spectral region 0.4 to 1.1 microns, and a radial velocity spectrograph in the IR CaII triplet region. We present our simulations on Gaia observations obtained by the use of GOG (Gaia Object Generator) for a catalogue of proto-PNe and PNe (Suárez et al. 2009) and discuss the potentiality of these data to classify and infer some physical properties of the sources.