The Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database (LAMDA): Current status, recent updates, and future plans

FFS van der Tak, F Lique, A Faure, JH Black… - Atoms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database (LAMDA) collects spectroscopic information
and collisional rate coefficients for molecules, atoms, and ions of astrophysical and …

Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H ii regions

JE Méndez-Delgado, C Esteban, J García-Rojas… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
H ii regions are ionized nebulae surrounding massive stars. They exhibit a wealth of
emission lines that form the basis for estimation of chemical composition. Heavy elements …

CHIANTI—An atomic database for emission lines. XIII. Soft X-ray improvements and other changes

E Landi, PR Young, KP Dere, G Del Zanna… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The CHIANTI spectral code consists of two parts: an atomic database and a suite of
computer programs in Python and IDL. Together, they allow the calculation of the optically …

New strong-line abundance diagnostics for H ii regions: effects of κ-distributed electron energies and new atomic data

MA Dopita, RS Sutherland, DC Nicholls… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, Nicholls et al., inspired by in situ observations of solar system astrophysical
plasmas, suggested that the electrons in H ii regions are characterized by a κ-distribution of …

EMPRESS. XIII. Chemical Enrichment of Young Galaxies Near and Far at z∼ 0 and 4–10: Fe/O, Ar/O, S/O, and N/O Measurements with a Comparison of Chemical …

K Watanabe, M Ouchi, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present gas-phase elemental abundance ratios of thirteen local extremely metal-poor
galaxies (EMPGs), including our new Keck/LRIS spectroscopy determinations together with …

Deriving model-based Te-consistent chemical abundances in ionized gaseous nebulae

E Pérez-Montero - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The derivation of abundances in gaseous nebulae ionized by massive stars using optical
collisionally excited emission lines is studied in this work, comparing the direct or T e …

The chemical evolution of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in metal-poor dwarf galaxies

DA Berg, DK Erb, RBC Henry, ED Skillman… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultraviolet nebular emission lines are important for understanding the time evolution and
nucleosynthetic origins of their associated elements, but the underlying trends of their …

Density biases and temperature relations for DESIRED H ii regions

JE Méndez-Delgado, C Esteban… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a first study based on the analysis of the DEep Spectra of Ionized REgions Data
base (DESIRED). This is a compilation of 190 high signal-to-noise ratio optical spectra of …

CHAOS I. DIRECT CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES FOR REGIONS IN NGC 628

DA Berg, ED Skillman, KV Croxall… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The CHemical Abundances of Spirals (CHAOS) project leverages the combined
power of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) with the broad spectral range and sensitivity …

The Galactic radial abundance gradients of C, N, O, Ne, S, Cl, and Ar from deep spectra of H ii regions

KZ Arellano-Córdova, C Esteban… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a reassessment of the radial abundance gradients of C, N, O, Ne, S, Cl, and Ar
in the Milky Way using deep spectra of 33 H ii regions gathered from the literature, covering …