The Continuum Emission Spectrum of Hf 2-2 near the Balmer Limit and the ORL versus CEL abundance and temperature Discrepancy

Abstract

The continuum spectrum of the planetary nebula Hf 2-2 close to the Balmer discontinuity is modeled in the context of the long standing problem of the abundance and temperature discrepancy found when analyzing optical recombination lines and collisionally excited forbidden lines in nebulae. Models are constructed using single and double Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions as well as kappa-distributions for the energies of the free electrons. New results for the necessary continuum and line emission coefficients are presented calculated with kappa-distributed energies. The best fit to the observed continuum spectrum is found to be a model comprising two components with dramatically different temperatures and with a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of electron energies. On the basis of a chi-squared analysis, this model is strongly favored over a model with kappa-distributed electron energies.

7 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables

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