H2 model in PN M 1-60 with pycloudy

[José Jairo Díaz Luis]

Dear all,

 I am José Jairo, a PhD student working on organic molecules in PNe at IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias). I have taken a course of pycloudy with Christophe at my institute, but I am still a little bit lost. I am trying to generate a cloudy model for PN M 1-60 and reproduce the quotients of H2 observed with LIRIS (we only have 4 lines of H2 in the near-infrared). The main problem is that these lines are located at 2.12, 2.22, 2.25, and 2.41 microns. Does cloudy include these 4 lines? How can I check which lines of H2 are available in pycloudy? Is it possible to adjust the quotients of these 4 lines and use pycloudy to predict the excitation temperature with other lines of H2? I would be grateful if you could help me.

Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
José Jairo

[Christophe Morisset]

Hi Jose,
Sorry for the delay.
It seems to me that those H2 lines are not in the Cloudy database.
There is a lot of modelular lines from H2O, CO, etc, but not for H2 (from what I can see using the "save line labels " command.
You may have a more complete answer on the Cloudy itself discussion group:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/cloudy_simulations/info

Cheers,
Christophe