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Helium contamination from the progenitor stars of planetary nebulae: The He/H radial gradient and the ΔY / ΔZ enrichment ratio

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In this work, two aspects of the chemical evolution of 4He in the Galaxy are considered on the basis of a sample of disk planetary nebulae (PN). First, an application of corrections owing to the contamination of 4He from the evolution of the progenitor stars shows that the He/H abundance by number of atoms is reduced by 0.012 to 0.015 in average, leading to an essentially flat He/H radial distribution. Second, a determination of the helium to heavy element enrichment ratio using the same corrections leads to values in the range 2.8 < ΔY / ΔZ < 3.6 for Y p = 0.23 and 2.0 < ΔY / ΔZ < 2.8 for Y p = 0.24, in good agreement with recent independent determinations and theoretical models.

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Maciel, W. Helium contamination from the progenitor stars of planetary nebulae: The He/H radial gradient and the ΔY / ΔZ enrichment ratio. Astrophysics and Space Science 277, 545–563 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013827617446

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