Temperatures of gaseous nebulae - A decade of depression

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Dec 1974

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Royal Astronomical Society, Quarterly Journal, vol. 15, Dec. 1974, p. 370-391.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Balmer Series, Electron Energy, Interstellar Gas, Nebulae, Radiative Recombination, Radio Spectra, Abundance, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Forbidden Transitions, Infrared Astronomy, Line Spectra, Radio Astronomy, Stellar Radiation, Thermal Stability

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Prior to 1963, electron temperatures in nebulae of about 10,000 K, deduced from relative intensities of forbidden O III lines, were generally accepted. In 1963, Burbidge, Gould and Pottasch argued that temperatures should be much lower; thus for a nebula excited by a star of temperature 30,000 K, they computed an electron temperature of 3,000 K. Subsequent observational work on radio surface brightnesses, radio recombination lines, Balmer decrements and Balmer line-to-continuum ratios appeared to confirm their results. However, all of the most recent observational and theoretical work shows that these low electron temperatures are not correct.

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