Some Recent Publications

Oxygen and Neon abundances of planetary nebulae in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4697

Méndez R.H., Thomas D., Saglia R.P., Maraston C., Kudritzki R.P., Bender R.

2005, ApJ, 627, 767

Deep PN surveys beyond the Local Group

Méndez R.H.

2004, in ESO Workshop ``Planetary Nebulae beyond the Milky Way'', eds. J.Walsh, L.Stanghellini, in press (Invited Review).

Radiation-driven winds of hot luminous stars XV. Constraints on the mass-luminosity relation of central stars of planetary nebulae

Pauldrach A.W.A., Hoffmann T.L., Méndez R.H.

2004, A\&A, 419, 1111

Detection, photometry and slitless radial velocities of 535 planetary nebulae in the flattened elliptical galaxy NGC 4697

Méndez R.H., Riffeser A., Kudritzki R.P., Matthias M., Freeman K.C., Arnaboldi M., Capaccioli M., Gerhard O.E.

2001, ApJ, 563, 135

Discovery of 9 Ly alpha emitters at redshift z=3.1 using narrow-band imaging and VLT spectroscopy

R.P.Kudritzki, R.H.Méndez, J.J.Feldmeier, R.Ciardullo, G.H.Jacoby, K.C.Freeman, M.Arnaboldi, M.Capaccioli, O.Gerhard, H.C.Ford

2000, ApJ, 536, 19.

From intracluster planetary nebulae to high-redshift Ly alpha emitters

R.P.Kudritzki, R.H.Méndez, J.J.Feldmeier, R.Ciardullo, G.H.Jacoby, K.C.Freeman, M.Arnaboldi, M.Capaccioli, O.Gerhard, H.C.Ford

1999, The ESO Messenger, No. 98, p. 50

Distances from the planetary nebulae luminosity function

R.H.Méndez

1999, in ``Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles", Astrophysics and Space Science Library Vol. 237, eds. A.Heck and F.Caputo, Kluwer, p. 161 (Invited Review)

The stellar dynamics and mass of NGC 1316 using the radial velocities of planetary nebulae

M.Arnaboldi, K.C.Freeman, O.Gerhard, M.Matthias, R.P.Kudritzki, R.H.Méndez, M.Capaccioli, H.Ford

1998, Astrophys. J., Vol. 507, p. 759

Improved simulations of the planetary nebula luminosity function

R. H. Méndez and T. Soffner

1997, Astron. Astrophys. 321, 898

Last revision: August 12, 2005

Roberto H. Méndez (mendez@ifa.hawaii.edu)