Description
Our previous identification and spectroscopic confirmation of 431 faint, new planetary nebulae (PNe) in the central 25deg^2^ region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) permit us to now examine the shape of the LMC planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) through an unprecedented 10mag range. The majority of our newly discovered and previously known PNe were observed using the 2dF, multi-object fibre spectroscopy system on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope and the FLAMES multi-object spectrograph on the 8-m Very Large Telescope. We present reliable [OIII] 5007{AA} and H{beta} flux estimates based on calibrations to well-established PN fluxes from previous surveys and spectroscopic standard stars.
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