Bibcode
Mesa-Delgado, A.; López-Martín, L.; Esteban, C.; García-Rojas, J.; Luridiana, V.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 394, Issue 2, pp. 693-703.
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2009
Citations
18
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Description
We present results from integral field spectroscopy with the Potsdam
Multi-Aperture Spectrograph of the head of the Herbig-Haro (HH) object
HH202 with a spatial sampling of 1 × 1arcsec2. We have
obtained maps of different emission lines, physical conditions - such as
electron temperature and density - and ionic abundances from
recombination and collisionally excited lines. We present the first map
of the Balmer temperature and of the temperature fluctuation parameter,
t2. We have calculated the t2 in the plane of the
sky, which is substantially smaller than that determined along the line
of sight. We have mapped the abundance discrepancy factor (ADF) of
O2+, ADF(O2+), finding its maximum value at the
HH202-S position. We have explored the relations between the
ADF(O2+) and the electron density, the Balmer and [OIII]
temperatures, the ionization degree as well as the t2
parameter. We do not find clear correlations between these properties
and the results seem to support that the ADF and t2 are
independent phenomena. We have found a weak negative correlation between
the O2+ abundance determined from recombination lines and the
temperature, which is the expected behaviour in an ionized nebula, hence
it seems that there is no evidence for the presence of supermetal-rich
droplets in HII regions.
Based on observations collected at the Centro Astronómico Hispano
Alemán (CAHA) at Calar Alto, operated jointly by the Max-Planck
Institut für Astronomie and the Instituto de Astrofísica de
Andalucía (CSIC).
E-mail: amd [at] iac.es (amd[at]iac[dot]es)
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