What can emission lines tell us?

Abstract

1 Generalities 2 Empirical diagnostics based on emission lines 3 Photoionization modelling 4 Pending questions 5 Appendix: Lists of useful lines and how to deal with them

55 pages, Lectures given at the XVIII Canary Island Winterschool "The emission line Universe", to be published by Cambridge University Press

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