HII Regions

This talk was given as part of a weekly lunch talk for the undergraduates in the Aggie Scholarships for Technology Advancements in Astronomical Research (AggieSTAAR) program. In it, I gave an overview of the atomic physics of HII regions and how we use that to study, in particular, the abundances of HII regions. Some information about the SIGNALS collaboration was given as an application.

An invited review talk at the SIGNALS workshop about HII regions, pockets of gas ionized by hot stars. In this talk, I give an overview of the work that has been done about HII regions as well as many ideas for future work within SIGNALS.

A general overview of my research into the correlation between ionization parameter and oxygen abundance for HII regions in the local universe using data from the SIGNALS project. This talk is meant for a general scientific audience composed of both astronomers and nuclear physicists.