Space telescope Imaging Spectrograph ultraviolet spectra of LMC planetary nebulae. A study of carbon abundances and stellar evolution

Abstract

We acquired spectra of 24 LMC PNe in the 1150--3000 Årange in order to determine carbon and other ionic abundances. The sample more than doubles the number of LMC PNe with good quality UV spectra in this wavelength range, and whose optical images are available in the {\it HST} archive. The {\it Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph} was used with a very large aperture to obtain virtually slit-less spectra, thus the monochromatic images in the major nebulae emission lines are also available. The analysis of the data shows extremely good quality spectra. This paper presents the emission lines identified and measured, and the calculation of the ionic abundances of the emitting carbon and other ions, and total carbon abundance. P-Cygni profiles have been found in a fraction of the nebulae, and the limiting velocities of the stellar winds estimated. The total carbon abundance can be inferred reliably in most nebulae. We found that the average carbon abundance in round and elliptical PNe is one order of magnitude larger than that of the bipolar PNe, while elliptical and round PNe with a bipolar core have a bimodal behavior. This results confirm that bipolarity in LMC PNe is tightly correlated with high mass progenitors. When compared to predicted yields, we found that the observed abundance ratio show a shift toward higher carbon abundances, that may be due to initial conditions assumed in the models not appropriate for LMC PNe.

arXiv commentAp. J., in press

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