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arXiv 2005.03798astro-ph.GA
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光谱质量对星云丰度的影响

The impact of spectra quality on nebular abundances

Mónica Rodríguez

摘要:

我探讨了观测误差对星云化学丰度的影响,使用不同作者观测到的42个行星状星云(PNe)的179个光谱样本。以均匀的方式分析光谱,以得出物理条件以及离子和总丰度。复合对[O II]和[N II]发射谱线的影响通过在O $^+$和N $^+$的统计平衡方程中包括有效复合系数来估计。结果表明,是显着不同,比那些使用以前的方法。O $^+$丰度与[O II]的蓝线和红线相差6倍,表明波长分离很远的线的相对强度可能是高度不确定的。事实上,He I在4000-6800 A范围内的谱线意味着大部分光谱比预期的要蓝。使用不同的标准将分数分配给光谱,并且将每个PN具有最高分数的光谱作为参考光谱。用参考光谱和其他光谱得到的丰度之间的差异被用来估计最终丰度的一西格玛观测不确定性:O/H和Ar/H为0.11 dex,N/H,Ne/H和Cl/H为0.14 dex,S/H为0.16 dex。

英文摘要:

I explore the effects of observational errors on nebular chemical abundances using a sample of 179 optical spectra of 42 planetary nebulae (PNe) observed by different authors. The spectra are analysed in a homogeneous way to derive physical conditions and ionic and total abundances. The effects of recombination on the [O II] and [N II] emission lines are estimated by including the effective recombination coefficients in the statistical equilibrium equations that are solved for O$^+$ and N$^+$. The results are shown to be significantly different than those derived using previous approaches. The O$^+$ abundances derived with the blue and red lines of [O II] differ by up to a factor of 6, indicating that the relative intensities of lines widely separated in wavelength can be highly uncertain. In fact, the He I lines in the range 4000-6800 A imply that most of the spectra are bluer than expected. Scores are assigned to the spectra using different criteria and the spectrum with the highest score for each PN is taken as the reference spectrum. The differences between the abundances derived with the reference spectrum and those derived with the other spectra available for each object are used to estimate the one-sigma observational uncertainties in the final abundances: 0.11 dex for O/H and Ar/H, 0.14 dex for N/H, Ne/H, and Cl/H, and 0.16 dex for S/H.

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