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The Integral Field View of the Orion Nebula
This paper reviews the major advances achieved in the Orion Nebula through
the use of integral field spectroscopy (IFS). Since the early work of
Vasconcelos and collaborators in 2005, this technique has facilitated the
investigation of global properties of the nebula and its morphology, providing
new clues to better constrain its 3D structure. IFS has led to the discovery of
shock-heated zones at the leading working surfaces of prominent Herbig-Haro
objects as well as the first attempt to determine the chemical composition of
Orion protoplanetary disks, also known as proplyds. The analysis of these
morphologies using IFS has given us new insights into the abundance discrepancy
problem, a long-standing and unresolved issue that casts doubt on the
reliability of current methods used for the determination of metallicities in
the universe from the analysis of H II regions. Results imply that high-density
clumps and high-velocity flows may play an active role in the production of
such discrepancies. Future investigations based on the large-scale IFS mosaic
of Orion will be very valuable for exploring how the integrated effect of
small-scale structures may have impact at larger scales in the framework of
star-forming regions.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures. Review paper published in Advances in Astronomy
as part of the special issue "Metals in 3D: A Cosmic View from Integral Field
Spectroscopy". More information: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/27932
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Small-spatial scale variations of nebular properties and the abundance discrepancy in three Galactic HII regions
We present results of long-slit spectroscopy in several slit positions that
cover different morphological structures of the central parts of three bright
Galactic HII regions: M8, M17 and NGC7635. We study the spatial distributions
of a large number of nebular parameters such as the extinction coefficient,
line fluxes, physical conditions and ionic abundances at the maximum spatial
resolution attainable with our instrumentation. Particularly, our goal is to
study the behaviour of the abundance discrepancy factor of O^{2+}, ADF(O^{2+}),
defined as the logarithmic difference of the O^{2+} abundances derived from
collisionally excited and recombination lines. We find that the ADF(O^{2+})
remains fairly constant along the slit positions of M8 and M17. In the case of
NGC7635, we only detect the OII recombination lines in the integrated spectrum
along the whole slit, where the ADF(O^{2+}) reaches a remarkably high value of
about 0.59 dex. We compare our results with previous ones obtained for the
Orion Nebula. We find several evidences that suggest the presence of a
candidate to Herbig-Haro object in M8.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures. Table A1 available only in the online version.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS
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