We report the analysis results of far ultraviolet (FUV) observations, made for a broad region around $α$ Vir (Spica) including the interaction zone of Loop I and the Local Bubble. The whole region was optically thin and a general correlation was seen between the FUV continuum intensity and the dust extinction, except in the neighborhood of the bright central star, indicating the dust scattering nature of the FUV continuum. We performed Monte-Carlo radiative transfer simulations to obtain the optical parameters related to the dust scattering as well as the geometrical structure of the region. The albedo and asymmetry factor were found to be 0.38$\pm$0.06 and 0.46$\pm$0.06, respectively, in good agreement with the Milky Way dust grain models. The distance to and the thickness of the interaction zone were estimated to be 70$^{+4}_{-8}$ pc and 40$^{+8}_{-10}$ pc, respectively. The diffuse FUV continuum in the northern region above Spica was mostly the result of scattering of the starlight from Spica, while that in the southern region was mainly due to the background stars. The \ion{C}{4} $λλ$1548, 1551 emission was found throughout the whole region, in contrast to the \ion{Si}{2}* $λ$1532 emission which was bright only within the \ion{H}{2} region. This indicates that the \ion{C}{4} line arises mostly at the shell boundaries of the bubbles, with a larger portion likely from the Loop I than from the Local Bubble side, whereas the \ion{Si}{2}* line is from the photoionized Spica nebula.
Carbon Abundances in Compact Galactic Planetary Nebulae: An Ultraviolet spectroscopic study with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)
我们用哈勃太空望远镜（HST/STIS）上的太空望远镜成像光谱仪测量了一个致密的银河系行星状星云（PNe）样本，以确定它们的气相碳丰度。PNe中的碳丰度限制了它们的渐近巨星分支（AGB）祖先的性质，以及宇宙循环。我们测量了11个紧凑的银河系PNe的碳丰度或其极限，显着增加了银河系PNe的样品，其碳丰度基于HST紫外光谱是可用的。大多数目标的尘埃含量已经在斯皮策光谱学的其他地方进行了研究;考虑到星云的紧凑性质，紫外和红外光谱可以直接比较，以研究气相和尘埃相的碳。我们发现，贫碳（C/O<1）致密的银河系PNE具有富氧尘埃类型（ORD），而碳增强的对应物（C/O>1）具有富碳尘埃（CRD），证实了麦哲伦云PNE中气相和尘埃相碳含量之间的相关性。基于AGB演化的预期最终产量模型，我们解释了本研究中的大多数贫碳PNe是~1.1-1.2 M $_{\odot}$恒星的后代，这些恒星在红巨星分支（RGB）上经历了一些额外的混合，它们经历了AGB阶段，但没有经历碳星阶段。这一群中的大多数PNe具有双极形态，可能是由于太阳下伴星的存在。我们样本中的碳增强PNe可能是1.5-2.5 M $_{\odot}$范围内恒星的后代，这取决于它们原始的金属丰度。
Sector-based morphological analysis of four planetary nebulae (J 320, NGC 2610, A 6672 and PRTM 1) observed with UVIT/ASTROSAT
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela（印度鲁尔克拉国立理工学院）；U. R. College, Rosera, Samastipur, A constitutent unit of Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar（拉利特·纳扬·米提拉大学下属乌尔学院）
对中子星及其脉冲星风星云（PWNe）的偏振测量能够提供对年轻的旋转动力孤立中子星（INS）的高度磁化相对论环境的深刻见解。除了无线电波段，光学观测主要适合提供这种见解。进行光学偏振观测的第一个惯性导航系统是蟹状星云脉冲星，它也是最亮的一颗（V=16.5）。由于这个原因，蟹状星云脉冲星也是唯一的惯性导航系统，重复，相位分辨偏振测量已执行多年。此外，它是唯一的情况下，连同更微弱和遥远的PSR B 0540 -69在大麦云（LMC），一个光学脉冲星嵌入在一个光学PWN。因此，螃蟹是一个完美的测试案例，研究光学偏振特性的光子晶体和他们的PWNe。在本文中，我们回顾了蟹状星云脉冲星及其PWN在光域和紫外域的偏振特性，总结了其他INS偏振观测的最新进展，并概述了使用当前和未来几代光学望远镜进行INS偏振研究的前景
SN2023ixf: ultraviolet-to-infrared radiative-transfer modeling of the nebular-phase evolution until 1000 days
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS-Sorbonne Université（巴黎天体物理研究所，法国国家科学研究中心-索邦大学）；French-Chilean Laboratory for Astronomy, IRL 3386, CNRS and Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile（中法天文实验室，法国国家科学研究中心和智利天主教Pontificia大学天体物理研究所）；Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院卡希尔天体物理学中心）；Steward Observatory, University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学斯图尔德天文台）；Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校天文学系）；Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC)（空间科学研究所（CSIC））；Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)（加泰罗尼亚空间研究研究所）；Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校物理与天文学系）
