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Reid Miller, T.; Henry, Richard B. C.; Dufour, Reginald J.; Kwitter, Karen; Shaw, Richard A.; Balick, Bruce; Corradi, R. L. M.
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IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2255714
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2015
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Description
We present an analysis of six spatially resolved planetary nebulae
(PNe), NGC 3242, NGC 5315, NGC5882, NGC 7662, IC 2165, and IC 3568, from
observations in the Cycle 19 program GO 12600 using HSTSTIS. These six
observations cover the wavelength range 1150-10,270 Å with 0.2 and
0.5 arcsec wideslits, and are co-spatial to 0.1 arcsec along a 25 arcsec
length across each nebula. The wavelength andspatial coverage enabled
this detailed study of physical conditions and abundances from UV and
opticalline emissions (compared to only optical lines) for these six
PNe. The first UV lines of interest are thoseof carbon. The resolved
lines of C III] 1906.68 and 1908.73 yielded a direct measurement of the
densitywithin the volume occupied by doubly-ionized carbon and other
similar co-spatial ions as well ascontributed to an accurate measurement
of the carbon abundance. Each PN spectrum was divided intosmaller
spatial regions in order to assess inferred density variations among the
regions along the entireslit. There is a clear difference in the
inferred density for several regions of each PNe. Variations inelectron
temperature and chemical abundances were also probed and shown to be
nearly completelyhomogeneous within the errors. Lastly, these nebulae
were modeled in detail with the photoionizationcode CLOUDY. This
modeling tested different density profiles in order to reproduce the
observed densityvariations and temperature fluctuations, and constrain
central star parameters. We gratefullyacknowledge generous support from
NASA through grants related to the Cycle 19 program GO 12600, aswell as
from the University of Oklahoma.