Bibcode
Madonna, S.; García-Rojas, J.; Luridiana, V.; Sterling, N. C.; Morisset, C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.87, p.299 (2016)
Fecha de publicación:
2016
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0
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Descripción
The chemical content of the planetary nebula NGC 3918 is investigated
through deep, high-resolution (R˜40,000) UVES at VLT
spectrophotometric data. We identify and measure more than 750 emission
lines, making ours one of the deepest spectra ever taken for a planetary
nebula. Among these lines we detect very faint lines of several
neutron-capture elements (Se, Kr, Rb, and Xe), which enable us to
compute their chemical abundances with unprecedented accuracy, thus
constraining the efficiency of the ph s-process and convective dredge-up
in the progenitor star of NGC 3918.