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Scientific interests:
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) in the Milky Way and beyond; Hot stars, central
stars of PNe, AGB and post-AGB stars; Stellar evolution and populations
RECENT PAPERS
The Magellanic Cloud Calibration of the Galactic Planetary Nebula Distance Scale
L. Stanghellini, R. A. Shaw, & E. Villaver, ApJ, submitted
Revealing the nature of asymmetric planetary nebulae through abundance analysis
Letizia Stanghellini, in "Asymmetric planetary nebulae IV", held in La Palma (Spain),
June 2007, in press (arXiv:0709.3089v1 [astro-ph])
Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph observations of Magellanic Cloud planetary
nebulae: the nature of dust in low metallicity stellar ejecta.
Stanghellini, L., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Perea-Calderon, J.
V., Davies, J. E., Manchado, A., Villaver, E., and Shaw, R. A.,
2007, ApJ 671, 1669
High resolution spectra of bright central stars of bipolar planetary nebulae,
and the question of magnetic shaping
Lee, T.-H., Stanghellini, L., Ferrario, L., and Wickramasinghe, D., 2007,
AJ 133, 987
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