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短周期双星电离星云的共振温度涨落

Resonant temperature fluctuations in nebulae ionized by short-period binary stars

Manuel A. Bautista, Ehab E. Ahmed

摘要:

目前行星状星云研究和光电离气体星云研究中的一个普遍存在的问题是,在许多H II区和行星状星云中,来自复合和碰撞激发线的离子丰度存在系统性差异。Peimbert(1967)提出这些差异是由于等离子体中的“温度波动”,但这种波动的幅度仍然无法用标准的光电离模型来解释。在这封信中,我们表明,大幅度的温度振荡预计将形成在气体星云的光电离的短周期双星。这样的恒星产生周期性变化的电离辐射场,这会导致整个星云的加热-冷却功能发生周期性变化。对于几天的通量振荡周期,气体中任何频率与电离源频率相似的温度扰动都将经历共振放大。在这种情况下,扰动的增长率随着电离通量变化的幅度和星云平衡温度的降低而增加。我们还提出了一个结合[O III]碰撞线和O II复合线的线比诊断图,用于诊断气体星云的平衡和波动振幅温度。当我们把这个诊断应用于行星状星云M1 -42时,我们发现它的平衡温度约为6000 K,共振温度涨落幅度(Trtf)约为4000 K。该平衡温度明显低于忽略温度扰动时估计的温度。

英文摘要:

A present prevailing open problem planetary nebulae research, and photoionized gaseous nebulae research at large, is the systematic discrepancies in ionic abundances derived from recombination and collisionally excited lines in many H II regions and planetary nebulae. Peimbert (1967) proposed that these discrepancies were due to 'temperature fluctuations' in the plasma, but the amplitude of such fluctuations remain unexplained by standard phtoionization modeling. In this letter we show that large amplitude temperature oscillations are expected to form in gaseous nebulae photoionized by short-period binary stars. Such stars yield periodically varying ionizing radiation fields, which induce periodic oscilla- tions in the heating-minus-cooling function across the nebula. For flux oscillation periods of a few days any temperature perturbations in the gas with frequencies similar to those of the ionizing source will undergo resonant amplification. In this case, the rate of growth of the perturbations increases with the amplitude of the variations of the ionizing flux and with decreasing nebular equilibrium temperature. We also present a line ratios diagnostic plot that combines [O III] collisional lines and O II recombination lines for diagnosing equilibrium and fluctuation am- plitude temperatures in gaseous nebulae. When applying this diagnostic to the planetary nebula M 1-42 we find an equilibrium temperature of ~6000 K and a resonant temperature fluctuation amplitude (Trtf ) of ~4000 K. This equilibrium temperature is significantly lower than the temperature estimated when temperature perturbations are ignored.

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