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Chemical Abundances in Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

D. J. Monk
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
M. J. Barlow
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
R. E. S. Clegg
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London

Abstract

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Optical spectroscopic data for 71 Planetary Nebulae (PN) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have been analysed. The line fluxes have been used to determine nebular temperatures, densities, and the abundances of He, N, O, Ne and Ar, relative to H. In our sample there are 12 nebulae with N/O ≥ 0.5, resembling Peimbert's Type I PN; 6 low excitation (LE) objects (1 ≤ I(5007)/I(Hβ) ≤ 4); and 4 very-low-excitation (VLE) nebulae (I(Hβ) > I(5007), similar to the Galactic VLE class. Mean abundances have been calculated for the nebulae not in these special groups.

Type
IV. Extragalactic Nebulae
Copyright
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