Resolving the electron temperature discrepancies in H II regions and planetary nebulae: κ-Distributed electrons

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2012

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Nicholls , David
Dopita, Michael
Sutherland, Ralph

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

The measurement of electron temperatures and metallicities in H II regions and planetary nebulae (PNe) has - for several decades - presented a problem: results obtained using different techniques disagree. What is worse, they disagree consistently. There

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Keywords: acceleration of particles; atomic data; atomic processes; H ii regions; ISM: abundances; planetary nebulae: general; plasmas

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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