Gas-phase abundances of refractory elements in planetary nebulae - A hot-wind model

Journal Article · · Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/130688· OSTI ID:5634062

Shields, G A

Planetary nebulae (PN) characteristically show large gas-phase depletions of some refractory elements, with Fe/H and Ca/H concentration ratios approximately equal to -1.5. In contrast, the gas-phase abundance of carbon is large, with a C/H concentration ratio greater than approximately +0.3. This pattern is difficult to understand in terms of grain formation and destruction during PN formation. However, these abundances are consistent with a model (Kwok, Purton, and FitzGerald, 1978) in which the PN shell consists of material expelled as a wind during the red-giant phase and subsequently compressed and accelerated by the impact of a hot stellar wind from the central star.

• OSTI ID: 5634062
• Journal Information: Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac.; (United States), Vol. 92
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
PLANETARY NEBULAE
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
ABUNDANCE
CARBON
INTERSTELLAR SPACE
IRON
PLANETARY EVOLUTION
RED GIANT STARS
REFRACTORIES
STELLAR WINDS
ELEMENTS
GIANT STARS
METALS
NEBULAE
NONMETALS
SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION
SPACE
STARS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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