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The Spatial Distribution of Line Ratio O III/O II in High Excitation Planetary Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

A. Noriega-Crespo
Affiliation:
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics M. McCall DDO and University of Toronto
M. McCall
Affiliation:
DDO and University of Toronto

Abstract

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Previous attempts to model the integrated line ratio [O III] 5007 A/[O II] 3727 A for high excitation planetary nebulae (Che and Köppen 1983) have suggested that the charge exchange coefficient (k) for the reaction could be 10 times smaller than the predicted theoretical value. The influence of other factors that may contribute to differences in the O III/O II ratio, such as the ionizing spectrum and the nebular gas density distribution, seem to be relatively small in the high excitation nebulae.

Type
II. Nebular Properties
Copyright
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