A comparison of forbidden-line and optical continuum electron temperatures in gaseous nebulae

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Feb 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979apj...227..863b&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 227, Feb. 1, 1979, p. 863-869.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Abundance, Electron Energy, Forbidden Bands, Nebulae, Planetary Nebulae, Hydrogen Clouds, Line Spectra, Temperature Measurement

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Photoelectric scanner observations have been made of the Balmer and Paschen discontinuities in several positions in a number of planetary nebulae and the Orion Nebula. Electron temperatures determined from these measurements are shown to be in generally good agreement with those found from forbidden lines; there is definitely no evidence that forbidden-line electron temperatures are systematically higher, as some previous investigations have found. This result suggests that in some studies metal-to-hydrogen abundance ratios in gaseous nebulae have been overestimated by nearly a factor of 2.

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