Dust masses and abundances in planetary nebulae: likely strong elemental depletion in low-abundance sources

Details Dust masses and abundances in planetary nebulae: likely strong elemental depletion in low-abundance sources Dust masses and abundances in planetary nebulae: likely strong elemental depletion in low-abundance sources

Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007mnras.381..117p&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 381, Issue 1, pp. 117-124.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ism: Abundances, Planetary Nebulae: General

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An analysis is undertaken of the relation between dust/gas mass ratios and elemental abundances within planetary nebulae (PNe). It is found that MDUST/MGAS is broadly invariant with abundance, and similar to the values observed in asymptotic giant branch (AGB)-type stars. However, it is noted that the masses of dust observed in low-abundance PNe are similar to the masses of heavy elements observed in the gas phase. This is taken to imply that levels of elemental depletion must be particularly severe, and extend to many more species than have been identified so far. In particular, given that levels of C and O depletion are likely to be large, then this probably implies that species such as Fe, S, Si and Mg are depleted as well. There is already evidence for depletion of Fe, Si and Mg in individual PNe. It follows that whilst quoted abundances may accurately reflect gas-phase conditions, they are likely to be at variance with intrinsic abundances in low ZN nebulae.
Finally, we note that there appears to be a variation in dust/gas mass ratios with galactocentric distance, with gradient similar to that observed for several elemental abundances. This may represent direct evidence for a correlation between dust/gas mass ratios and nebular abundances.

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