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麦哲伦沃尔夫-拉叶星周围的高激发星云

High-excitation nebulae around Magellanic Wolf-Rayet stars

Manfred W. Pakull

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Comments: Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 256, The Magellanic System; J.T. van Loon and J.M. Oliveira (Eds.)
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摘要：

SMC拥有一类热的氮序沃尔夫-拉叶星（WNE），只显示相对较弱的宽发射线。这表明低质量损失率，使它们也难以检测。然而，这类恒星可能是强He+ Lyman连续谱的发射体，而这又可能导致可观测到的HeIII区域，即高激发的HII区域发射星云HeII 4686辐射。我们在这里报告的发现，一个罕见的HeIII区的SMC位于OB协会NGC 249周围的弱线WN星SMC WR 10。WR 10是一颗特别有趣的恒星，因为它是一颗显示大气中存在氢的恒星。在分析两个流行的WR大气模型的框架中的频谱时，我们发现对于相同的输入参数，He+ Lyman连续统的预测强烈不一致（1 dex）。这里报告的工作的第二个方面是关于美丽的MCELS图像，它清楚地揭示了一类强[OIII]5007发射（蓝色编码）星云。不出所料，大多数“蓝色”星云都是已知的沃尔夫-拉叶气泡，但也发现了一些WR周围的新气泡。此外，我们报告的蓝星云的存在没有相关的已知WR和讨论的可能性，他们揭示弱风WR星非常微弱的恒星HeII 4686发射。或者，这样的星云可能暗示了迄今为止通过大质量双星演化计算预测的相对低质量的热He星的失踪人口。这样的双星系统可能是唯一的HeII 4686发射星云N44 C电离的原因。

英文摘要：

The SMC harbours a class of hot nitrogen-sequence Wolf-Rayet stars (WNE) that display only relatively weak broad emission lines. This indicates low mass-loss rates and makes them also hard to detect. However, such stars are possible emitters of strong He+ Lyman continua that in turn could ionize observable HeIII regions, i.e. highly excited HII regions emitting nebular HeII4686 emission. We here report the discovery of a rare HeIII region in the SMC which is located in the OB association NGC249 around the weak-lined WN star SMC WR10. WR10 is particularly interesting since it is a single star showing the presence of atmospheric hydrogen. While analysing the spectrum in the framework of two popular WR atmosphere models, we found for the same input parameters strongly discrepant predictions (by 1 dex) for the He+ Lyman continuum. A second aspect of the work reported here concerns the beautiful MCELS images which clearly reveal a class of strongly [OIII]5007 emitting (blue-coded) nebulae. Not unexpectedly, most of the 'blue' nebulae are known Wolf-Rayet bubbles, but new bubbles around a few WRs are also detected. Moreover, we report the existence of blue nebulae without associated known WRs and discuss the possibility that they reveal weak-wind WR stars with very faint stellar HeII4686 emission. Alternatively, such nebulae might hint at the hitherto missing population of relatively low-mass, hot He stars predicted by massive binary evolution calculations. Such a binary system is probably responsible for the ionization of the unique HeII4686-emitting nebula N44C.

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