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Pumping Up The [N I] Nebular Lines, Gary J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, C. R. O'Dell, R. L. Porter, P. A. M. Vanhoof, R. J. R. Williams
Pumping Up The [N I] Nebular Lines, Gary J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, C. R. O'Dell, R. L. Porter, P. A. M. Vanhoof, R. J. R. Williams
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
The optical [N I] doublet near 5200 Å is anomalously strong in a variety of emission-line objects. We compute a detailed photoionization model and use it to show that pumping by far-ultraviolet (FUV) stellar radiation previously posited as a general explanation applies to the Orion Nebula (M42) and its companion M43; but, it is unlikely to explain planetary nebulae and supernova remnants. Our models establish that the observed nearly constant equivalent width of [N I] with respect to the dust-scattered stellar continuum depends primarily on three factors: the FUV to visual-band flux ratio of the stellar population, the optical properties …
Ion-By-Ion Cooling Efficiencies, Orly Gnat, Gary J. Ferland
Ion-By-Ion Cooling Efficiencies, Orly Gnat, Gary J. Ferland
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
We present ion-by-ion cooling efficiencies for low-density gas. We use Cloudy (version 10.00) to estimate the cooling efficiencies for each ion of the first 30 elements (H-Zn) individually. We present results for gas temperatures between 104 and 108 K, assuming low densities and optically thin conditions. When nonequilibrium ionization plays a significant role the ionization states deviate from those that obtain in collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE), and the local cooling efficiency at any given temperature depends on specific nonequilibrium ion fractions. The results presented here allow for an efficient estimate of the total cooling efficiency for any ionic …