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极远行星状星云NGC 6302的三维光电离模型

A 3D Photoionization Model of the Extreme Planetary Nebula NGC 6302

Nicholas J. Wright, Michael J. Barlow, Barbara Ercolano, Thomas Rauch

摘要:

我们提出了一个三维光电离模型的PN NGC 6302,其最复杂的对象之一。我们的莫卡辛模型是由一个非常密集的拱盘和一个大对弥漫的双极叶,必要的组合,以重现所观察到的光谱。这些成分的质量给出星云的总质量为4.7Mo。我们的模型拟合和观测结果之间的差异归因于星云中复杂的密度不均匀性。一系列引入小尺度结构的模型证实了用更复杂的模型解决这种差异的潜力。与太阳丰度相比,He增强了50%,C略微低于太阳,O是太阳,N增强了6倍。这意味着第三次疏浚结合热底燃烧CN循环将疏浚的C转化为N。中央恒星部分被边缘的拱星盘所遮蔽,其性质没有受到很好的限制。一些高电离“日冕”谱线的发射限制了高能电离通量的形式。使用太阳丰度的恒星大气,我们无法拟合所有观测到的线通量,但使用220,000 K H缺乏的恒星大气,L*= 14,300 Lo,得到了更好的拟合。中心恒星的缺氢性质表明它经历了一个晚期的热脉冲,与演化轨迹的拟合表明中心恒星的质量为0.73- 0.82 Mo。这些轨道的时间尺度表明,该物体在大约2100年前离开了AGB的顶部,这与最近形成双极叶的质量损失事件的研究一致。基于模拟的星云和中心恒星的质量,我们估计中心恒星的初始质量为5.5Mo,与来自进化轨迹的一致。(摘要截短)

英文摘要:

We present a 3D photoionization model of the PN NGC 6302, one of the most complex objects of its kind. Our Mocassin model is composed of an extremely dense circumstellar disk and a large pair of diffuse bipolar lobes, a combination necessary to reproduce the observed spectrum. The masses of these components gives a total nebular mass of 4.7Mo. Discrepancies between our model fit and the observations are attributed to complex density inhomogeneities in the nebula. The potential to resolve such discrepancies with more complex models is confirmed by a range of models introducing small-scale structures. Compared to solar abundances He is enhanced by 50%, C is slightly subsolar, O is solar, and N is enhanced by a factor of 6. These imply a significant 3rd dredge-up coupled with hot-bottom burning CN-cycle conversion of dredged-up C to N. The central star is partly obscured by the edge-on circumstellar disk and its properties are not well constrained. Emission from a number of high-ionization `coronal' lines provides constraints on the form of the high-energy ionizing flux. Using a solar abundance stellar atmosphere we are unable to fit all of the observed line fluxes, but a substantially better fit was obtained using a 220,000K H-deficient stellar atmosphere with L*=14,300 Lo. The H-deficient nature of the central star suggests it has undergone a late thermal pulse, and fits to evolutionary tracks imply a central star mass of 0.73-0.82Mo. Timescales for these tracks suggest the object left the top of the AGB ~2100 years ago, in agreement with studies of the recent mass-loss event that formed the bipolar lobes. Based on the modelled nebular and central star masses we estimate the initial mass of the central star to be 5.5Mo, in agreement with that derived from evolutionary tracks. (Abstract truncated)

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