Bibcode
Luridiana, V.
Bibliographical reference
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.101
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Description
Collisional excitation of neutral hydrogen atoms can significantly
increase the intensity of Balmer lines with respect to pure
recombination. If this effect is not taken into account, the abundance
analysis of these objects returns biased values, and the bias may be
significant if accuracies better than a few percent are required. The
most affected objects are young, metal-poor H II regions, due to their
comparatively large temperatures. Until now, estimates of collisional
enhancement have been based on tailored modeling of individual H II
regions. In this contribution, I describe an ongoing effort to develop a
general calibration, suitable for application to large samples of
objects. Emphasis is placed on the uncertainties affecting the resulting
predictions.