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author:
- 'T.Ueta'
- 'D.Ladjal'
- 'K.M.Exter'
- 'M.Otsuka'
- 'R.Szczerba'
- 'N.Siódmiak'
- 'I.Aleman'
- 'P.A.M.van Hoof'
- 'J.H.Kastner'
- 'R.Montez'
- 'I.McDonald'
- 'M.Wittkowski'
- 'C.Sandin'
- 'S.Ramstedt'
- 'O.DeMarco'
- 'E.Villaver'
- 'Y.-H.Chu'
- 'W.Vlemmings'
- 'H.Izumiura'
- 'R.Sahai'
- 'J.A.Lopez'
- 'B.Balick'
- 'A.Zijlstra'
- 'A.G.G.M.Tielens'
- 'R.E.Rattray'
- 'E.Behar'
- 'E.G.Blackman'
- 'K.Hebden'
- 'J.L.Hora'
- 'K.Murakawa'
- 'J.Nordhaus'
- 'R.Nordon'
- 'I.Yamamura'
date: 'Received January 10, 2014; accepted March 11, 2014'
subtitle: 'I. Data Overview and Analysis Demonstration with '
title: 'The Herschel Planetary Nebula Survey (HerPlaNS)[^1]'
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[This is the first of a series of investigations into far-IR characteristics of 11 planetary nebulae (PNs) under the [*Herschel Space Observatory*]{} Open Time1 program, Herschel Planetary Nebula Survey (HerPlaNS).]{} [Using the HerPlaNS data set, we look into the PN energetics and variations of the physical conditions within the target nebulae. In the present work, we provide an overview of the survey, data acquisition and processing, and resulting data products.]{} [We perform (1) PACS/SPIRE broadband imaging to determine the spatial distribution of the cold dust component in the target PNs and (2) PACS/SPIRE spectral-energy-distribution (SED) and line spectroscopy to determine the spatial distribution of the 