@article{9fb91c517fb34e3aaf12dc00667d6423,
title = "Supernova remnants, planetary nebulae and the distance to NGC 4214",
abstract = "We present narrow band, continuum subtracted Hα, [S II], Hβ, [O III] and [O II] data taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope in the nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 4214. From these images, we identify seventeen new planetary nebula candidates, and seven supernova remnant candidates. We use the observed emission line luminosity function of the planetary nebulae to establish a new velocity-independent distance to NGC 4214. We conclude that the PNLF technique gives a reddening independent distance to NGC 4214 of 3.19±0.36 Mpc, and that our current best-estimate of the distance to this galaxy ids 2.98±0.13 Mpc.",
keywords = "Galaxies: ISM, starburst, structure, ISM: structure, supernova remnants, Stars: planetary nebulae, Supernovae: general",
author = "Dopita, {Michael A.} and Daniela Calzetti and {Ma{\'i}z Apell{\'a}niz}, Jes{\'u}s and Blair, {William P.} and Long, {Knox S.} and Max Mutchler and Whitmore, {Bradley C.} and Bond, {Howard E.} and John MacKenty and Bruce Balick and Marcella Carollo and Michael Disney and Frogel, {Jay A.} and Robert O'Connell and Donald Hall and Holtzman, {Jon A.} and Kimble, {Randy A.} and Patrick McCarthy and Francesco Paresce and Abhijit Saha and Walker, {Alistair R.} and Joe Silk and Marco Sirianni and John Trauger and Rogier Windhorst and Erick Young",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements This paper is based 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, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. It uses Early Release Science observations made by the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee. We are grateful to the Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute for awarding Director{\textquoteright}s Discretionary time for this program. Dopita acknowledges the support of the Australian Research Council (ARC) through Discovery projects DP0984657 and DP0664434. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has also made use of NASA{\textquoteright}s Astrophysics Data System, and of SAOImage DS9 (Joye and Mandel 2003), developed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/s10509-010-0376-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "330",
pages = "123--131",
journal = "Astrophysics and Space Science",
issn = "0004-640X",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}