COLLISIONAL EFFECTS IN HE-I - AN OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS

被引:130
作者
KINGDON, J
FERLAND, GJ
机构
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington
关键词
ATOMIC PROCESSES; PLANETARY NEBULAE; INDIVIDUAL; (NGC; 7026; NGC; 7027);
D O I
10.1086/175476
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Accurate and reliable helium abundances can test modern theories of galactic and primordial nucleosynthesis. Unfortunately, there is now some question whether current theory can account for collisional contributions to He I. We present new observations of two planetary nebulae (PNs) in the range lambda 3850-lambda 9650, which we use to assess the importance of collisional effects in the He I spectrum. The first object, NGC 7027, is expected to show relatively strong collisional enhancement, while the second, NGC 7026, should display only small effects. We derive new collision-to-recombination correction factors, based on new collision strengths from a 29-state quantal calculation of He I extending to n = 5. Our results show that the correction factors based on ''standard'' theory are correct, but that the errors acquired in such an observational analysis are appreciable. We find no convincing observational evidence for the existence of an unknown agent depopulating the 2(3)S State in PNs.
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页码:714 / 725
页数:12
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