Deep spectroscopy and modeling of emission line nebulae

Scientific programs

Monday, 16 April 2007

08:45 – 09:00 Welcome speeches (X.-W. Liu; J.-S. Chen)

Session I (Chair: X.-W. Liu)

09:00 – 09:20 Robert Williams, High resolution spectroscopy of PNe

09:20 – 09:30 Discussion

09:30 – 09.50 Nicholas Sterling, Improved neutron-capture element abundances in PNe from multiwavelength spectroscopy and new atomic data

09:50 – 10:00 Discussion

10:00 – 10:20 Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Line emission and dust – a view from the Spitzer Space Telescope

10:20 – 10:30 Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break

Session II (Chair: I. J. Danziger)

11:00 – 11:20 Martin Roth, 3D spectroscopy of PNe

11:20 – 11:30 Discussion

11:30 – 11:50 Katrina Exter, Integral Field Spectra of the inner knots of Abell 30

11:50 – 12:00 Discussion

12:00 – 12:20 Roger Wesson, Observations and modeling of H-deficient PNe

12:20 – 12:30 Discussion

Session III (Chair: R. Williams)

15:00 – 15:20 Reginald Dufour, HST imagery of five planetary nebulae in the C III] 1909 and optical lines

15:20 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 15:50 Wei Wang, Elemental abundances of Galactic bulge PNe from ORLs

15:50 – 16:00 Discussion

16:00 – 16:15 Stuart R. Pottasch, A preliminary discussion of the abundances of individual elements in dust in PNe

16:15 – 16:20 Discussion

16:20 – 16:35 Yong Zhang, FUSE observation of the planetary nebula NGC 7027

16:35 – 16:40 Discussion

16:40 – 17:00 Xiaowei Liu, Deep spectroscopy of optical emission lines – lessons learned and to learn

17:00 – 17:10 Discussion

Session IV (Chair: M. J. Barlow)

17:10 – 18:00 General Discussion: Abundances in PNe

Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Session V (Chair: P. J. Storey)

09:00 – 09:20 Robert Rubin, Abundances and properties from Spitzer observations of H II regions in M 33 and M 83

09:20 – 09:30 Discussion

09:30 – 09:50 Jose M. Vilchez, From 3D spectroscopy of Galactic and extragalactic nebulae to new empirical calibrations for fainter/distant objects

09:50 – 10:00 Discussion

10:00 – 10:20 Cesar Esteban, Spatial mapping of recombination lines and physical conditions in the Orion Nebula

10:20 – 10:30 Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break

Session VI (Chair: S. Kwok)

11:00 – 11:20 Jorge García-Rojas, H IIregion abundances from recombination lines

11:20 – 11:30 Discussion

11:30 – 11:50 Gregory Brunner, Spitzer IRS maps of spatially resolved molecular hydrogen and atomic line emission in the Whirlpool galaxies

11:50 – 12:00 Discussion

Session VII (Chair: J. P. Harrington)

14:30 – 14:50 Francesca Matteucci, Galactic chemical evolution from emission lines

14:50 – 15:00 Discussion

15:00 – 15:20 Miriam Peña, Similarities and differences between PNe and H II regions

15:20 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 15:50 Stuart R. Pottasch, A comparison between Galactic PN abundances with those of Galactic H II regions

15:50 – 16:00 Discussion

16:00 – 16:20 Gary Ferland, A case study of star formation in a magnetized medium

16:20 – 16:30 Discussion

16:30 – 17:00 Tea Break

Session VIII (Chair: D. Péquignot)

17:00 – 18:00 General Discussion: H II region abundances and observational techniques

Wednesday, 18 April 2007

Session IX (Chair: C. Esteban)

09:00 – 09:20 Pete Storey, The O II recombination spectrum

09:20 – 09:30 Discussion

09:30 – 09:50 Manuel Bautista, NLTE opacities and spectra of lowly ionized iron-peak species

09:50 – 10:00 Discussion

10:00 – 10:20 Grazyna Stasínska, Comments on abundance determinations

10:20 – 10.30 Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break

Session X (Chair: J. Bernard-Salas)

11:00 – 11:20 Daniel Péquignot, Modelling low metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxies

11:20 – 11:30 Discussion

11:30 – 11:50 Mike Barlow, High spectral resolution observations of heavy element forbidden and recombination lines from NGC 7009 and NGC 6153

11:50 – 12:00 Discussion

12:00 – 12:20 John Danziger, Symbiotic nova RR Tel

12:20 – 12:30 Discussion

Session XI (Chair: S. Pottasch)

14:00 – 14:20 Sun Kwok, Intrinsic 3D structures of planetary nebulae

14:20 – 14:30 Discussion

14:30 – 14:50 Christophe Morisset, A full (stellar and nebular) model of PN IC 418

14:50 – 15:00 Discussion

15:00 – 15:20 Barbara Ercolano, The temperature structure of H II regions and star-forming galaxies ionized by multiple spatially distributed sources: 3D photoionization models with MOCASSIN

15:20 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break

Session XII (Chair: G. Stasínska)

16:00 – 16:20 Hai-bo Yuan, 3D bi-abundance photoionization models of NGC 6153

16:20 – 16:30 Discussion

16:30 – 16:45 Yong Zhang, Emission line profiles as a probe of physical conditions in PNe

16:45 – 16:50 Discussion

16:50 – 17:10 Christophe Morisset, A few tools for the 3D modeling of ionized regions

17:10 – 17:20 Discussion

Session XII (Chair: G. Ferland)

17:20 – 18:20 General Discussion: Confrontation of models with observations; plus Summary