New strong-line abundance diagnostics for H II regions: Effects of κ-distributed electron energies and new atomic data

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Dopita, Michael
Sutherland, Ralph
Nicholls , David
Kewley, Lisa
Vogt, Frederic

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Institute of Physics Publishing

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Recently, Nicholls et al., inspired by in situ observations of solar system astrophysical plasmas, suggested that the electrons in H II regions are characterized by a κ-distribution of energies rather than a simple Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Here, w

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Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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