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Ultraviolet Observations of Planetary Nebulae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2016
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The ultraviolet spectra of gaseous nebulae have for long been arresting the attention of astrophysicists. The 60's saw the first attempts at plotting the expected spectra of planetary nebulae between 3000 and 912 Å (Code 1960; Aller 1961). This was followed by an examination of the expected forbidden lines (about thirty of them) in the ultraviolet, and of their relation to physical parameters (Gurzadyan 1965; Osterbrock 1963). Even more accurate calculations were made for the intensities of stronger lines in highly excited nebulae (Flower 1968). At the same time preliminary estimates were being made of atomic parameters for various transitions - the collision strengths, the probabilities of forbidden transitions, etc. (Czyzak et al. 1968; Garstang 1968). The computations of various models for planetary nebulae also bear on the above studies (Harrington 1968; Kirkpatrick 1970).
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- Session II: Observations of Planetary Nebulae
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