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把[N I]星云线抽上来

Pumping up the [N I] nebular lines

G. J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, C. R. O'Dell, R. L. Porter, P. A. M. van Hoof, R. J. R. Williams

摘要:

在各种发射线天体中,5200 nm附近的光学[NI]双峰都非常强。我们计算了一个详细的光电离模型,并用它来表明,泵的远紫外(FUV)恒星辐射以前假设的一般解释适用于猎户座星云(M42)和它的同伴M43,但它是不可能解释行星状星云和超新星遗迹。我们的模型建立,所观察到的几乎恒定的等效宽度[NI]相对于尘埃散射恒星连续主要取决于三个因素:FUV可见波段的流量比的恒星星族的尘埃的光学性质;和线加宽的泵浦发生。相比之下,[NI]/Hβ的强度比主要取决于FUV与极紫外的比值,该比值随激发星的光谱类型而变化。这与观测到的M42和M43之间的差异是5倍,它们分别由O 7和B0.5恒星激发。我们推导出一个非热加宽的顺序为5公里/秒的[N I]泵浦区,并表明,加宽机制必须是不同的大规模的湍流运动,已建议解释在此H II区域的线宽。需要一种在几个天文单位的尺度上运行的机制,这可能是由中性气体在1000至3000 K范围内的热不稳定性驱动的。在附录中,我们描述了如何碰撞和辐射过程中处理的详细模型NI原子现在包括在多云等离子体代码。

英文摘要:

The optical [N I] doublet near 5200 Å is anomalously strong in a variety of emission-line objects. We compute a detailed photoionization model and use it to show that pumping by far-ultraviolet (FUV) stellar radiation previously posited as a general explanation applies to the Orion Nebula (M42) and its companion M43; but, it is unlikely to explain planetary nebulae and supernova remnants. Our models establish that the observed nearly constant equivalent width of [N I] with respect to the dust-scattered stellar continuum depends primarily on three factors: the FUV to visual-band flux ratio of the stellar population; the optical properties of the dust; and the line broadening where the pumping occurs. In contrast, the intensity ratio [N I]/Hβ depends primarily on the FUV to extreme-ultraviolet ratio, which varies strongly with the spectral type of the exciting star. This is consistent with the observed difference of a factor of five between M42 and M43, which are excited by an O7 and B0.5 star respectively. We derive a non-thermal broadening of order 5 km/s for the [N I] pumping zone and show that the broadening mechanism must be different from the large-scale turbulent motions that have been suggested to explain the line-widths in this H II region. A mechanism is required that operates at scales of a few astronomical units, which may be driven by thermal instabilities of neutral gas in the range 1000 to 3000 K. In an appendix, we describe how collisional and radiative processes are treated in the detailed model N I atom now included in the Cloudy plasma code.

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