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Atomic processes in planetary nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2012

Xiaowei Liu
Xiaowei Liu*
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China email: x.liu@pku.edu.cn
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Progress in the study of the atomic processes in planetary nebulae (PNe) is reviewed, focusing on the literature published since the last IAU symposium on PNe five years ago. High quality photoionization cross sections and recombination coefficients are now available for the first six ions of the trans-iron elements selenium and krypton, enabling robust modeling of their ionization structure and consequently converting the measured ionic abundances to elemental abundances. Major progress has been achieved in utilizing the recombination spectra of helium and heavy element ions to probe the nebular physical conditions. New ab initio, density-dependent effective recombination coefficients have been calculated for the recombination spectra of O ii and N ii, down to very low temperatures (~ 100–300 K). Plasma diagnostics based entirely on those heavy element recombination lines are developed and applied to the observations. It is shown that these heavy element recombination lines originate predominately from cold plasmas of temperatures ~ 1,000 K, in agreement with the predictions of the bi-abundance model that has been proposed to explain the dichotomy of nebular plasma diagnostics and abundance determinations using collisional excited lines (CELs) on the one hand and optical recombination lines (ORLs) on the other.

Keywords

Atomic processesatomic dataplanetary nebulae: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S283: Planetary Nebulae: An Eye to the Future , July 2011 , pp. 131 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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