Bibcode
Núñez-Díaz, M.; Esteban, C.; Mesa-Delgado, A.
Referencia bibliográfica
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 - 13, 2012, Eds.: J.C. Guirado, L.M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas., pp.594-599
Fecha de publicación:
5
2013
Número de citas
3
Número de citas referidas
3
Descripción
We present a deep spectrophotometric mosaic of the Orion Nebula obtained
with the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer (PMAS) at Calar Alto
Observatory. The aim of the observations has been to determine the
spatial distribution of physical conditions and chemical abundances
across the nebula and at different morphological structures. The 64
arcsec long hexagonal fiber bundle (PPAK) has been used to obtain a
complete mosaic of the central 4 arcmin of the nebula in about 16
fields. The spectra cover the whole optical spectral range and permits
to derive: a) different line intensity ratios covering all possible
ionization states in the nebula; b) electron densities diagnostics based
of [S II], [O II], [Cl III] and [Fe III] line ratios; c) electron
temperatures from [O III], [N II] and [S II] line ratios as well as the
Balmer discontinuity; d) the distribution of ionic and total abundances
determined from collisionaly excited lines; e) ionic abundances of
C^{2+} and O^{2+} from recombination lines; f) and the abundance
discrepancy factor for O^{2+}.