Mid-IR observations of Galactic HII regions: constraining ionizing spectra of massive stars and the nature of the observed excitation sequences

Details Mid-IR observations of Galactic HII regions: constraining ionizing spectra of massive stars and the nature of the observed excitation sequences Mid-IR observations of Galactic HII regions: constraining ionizing spectra of massive stars and the nature of the observed excitation sequences

2003-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310151v2

Astron.Astrophys. 415 (2004) 577-594

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20034622

Extensive photoionization model grids for single star HII regions using a variety of recent state-of-the-art stellar atmosphere models have been computed with the main aim of constraining/testing their predicted ionizing spectra against recent ISO mid-IR observations of Galactic HII regions, which probe the ionizing spectra between ~ 24 and 41 eV thanks to Ne, Ar, and S fine structure lines. Particular care has been paid to examining in detail the dependences of the nebular properties on the numerous nebular parameters (mean ionization parameter U, abundances, dust etc.) which are generally unconstrained for the objects considered here. Finally we have examined which parameters are chiefly responsible for the observed mid-IR excitation sequences. The galactic gradient of metallicity changing the shape of the stellar emission is found to be one of the drivers for the excitation sequence of Galactic HII regions, the actual contribution of this effect being finally atmosphere model dependent. We find that the dispersion of Teff between different HII regions due to statistical sampling of the IMF plus additional scatter in the ionization parameter are probably the dominant driver for the observed excitation scatter.

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