Confirmation of New Planetary Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud11Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5‐26555.

Abstract

ABSTRACTWe present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of new planetary nebulae (PNe) that were discovered in the Reid‐Parker Anglo‐Australian Observatory/UK Schmidt Telescope Hα survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. These serendipitous observations from various HST programs yield independent confirmations of six PNe; one other detected nebula may also be a PN, and one appears to be a region of diffuse emission. The high‐resolution HST archival images enable us to determine the physical sizes, nebular morphology, and related features of these new PNe in detail for the first time. In a few cases, we were also able to identify the central star, which was impossible with the lower resolution, wide‐field discovery data. The confirmation of faint, extended halos surrounding many PNe in the Reid‐Parker catalog must await the acquisition of new deep, high‐resolution, narrowband imagery.