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J/A+A/280/581     Chemical abundances of PNe            (Pasquali+, 1993)
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Chemical behaviour of planetary nebulae and galactic abundance gradients
     Pasquali A., Perinotto M.
    <Astron. Astrophys. 280, 581 (1993)>
    =1993A&A...280..581P
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ADC_Keywords: Planetary nebulae ; Abundances
Keywords: planetary nebulae: general - ISM: abundances - galaxy: abundances.

Abstract:
    All  modern determinations of chemical abundances of He/H,  O/H,  C/H,
    N/H and Ne/H in 277 galactic  Planetary  Nebulae  have  been  used  to
    update our knowledge of the chemical behavior of Planetary Nebulae, as
    a whole  and in Peimbert's groups.  The data  have been used to set up
    the problem of  the chemical  gradients in  the Galaxy  from Planetary
    Nebulae.   The   Interstellar  Medium  has  been   found  to  be  more
    inhomogeneous in the past  epochs of  the Galaxy  than in  the present
    time.


File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl  Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80        .    This file
table1.dat      74       62    Chemical abundances of the PNe not included
                                in Table 1 of Perinotto (1991ApJS...76..687P)
table2.dat      43      222    Distances and velocities of PNe with known
                                chemical abundances
table3.dat     105       27    Planetary Nebulae of type I
table4.dat     106        9    Planetary Nebulae of type IV
refs.dat        80       53    References quoted in tables.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat table3.dat table4.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 15  A15    ---     Name     Name of PNe
  17- 25  A9     ---     PK       PK number of PNe
      27  A1     ---   l_He/H     [ >] Limit flag on He/H
  28- 33  F6.3   ---     He/H     ? Helium abundances with respect to H
      34  A1     ---   u_He/H     [ :] Uncertainty flag on He/H
  37- 42  F6.2   10-4    O/H      ? Oxygen abundances with respect to H
      43  A1     ---   u_O/H      [ :] Uncertainty flag on O/H
      45  A1     ---   l_C/O      [ <] Limit flag on N/O
  47- 51  F5.2   ---     C/O      ? Carbon abundances with respect to Oxygen
      52  A1     ---   u_C/O      [ :] Uncertainty flag on C/O
      53  A1     ---   l_N/O      [ <] Limit flag on N/O
  55- 59  F5.3   ---     N/O      ? Nitrogen abundances with respect to Oxygen
      60  A1     ---   u_N/O      [ :] Uncertainty flag on N/O
  63- 67  F5.3   ---     Ne/O     ? Neon abundances with respect to Oxygen
      68  A1     ---   u_Ne/O     [ :] Uncertainty flag on Ne/O
  70- 82  A13    ---   r6PK       ? References in literature.
  93- 99  F7.1   pc      Z        ? Z distance from the Galactic Plane
                                    from Cahn et al. (1992A&AS...94..399C)
 100-105  F6.1   km/s    V(LSR)   ? Radial velocities from Schneider et al.
                                        (1983ApJS...52..399S)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 10  A10    ---     Name     Name of PNe
  12- 20  A9     ---     PK       PK number of PNe
  26- 30  I5     pc      Distance Distance calculated from Cahn et al.
                                        (1992A&AS...94..399C)
  38- 43  F6.1   km/s    V(LSR)   ? Radial velocities Schneider et al.
                                        (1983ApJS...52..399S)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2-  3  I2    ---     RefNo     Reference number
       4  A1    ---     ---       [.]
   6- 80  A75   ---     Text      Text of reference, starting with the
                                    bibcode when existing.
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Acknowledgements: Anna Pasquali <pasquali@arcetri.astro.it>

History:
  * 26-Jul-1993: prepared at CDS (Francois Ochsenbein)
  * 16-Dec-1999: renumbered the references in the tables; added file "refs.dat"
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(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   16-Dec-1999

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