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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 The photoionization models
3 The sample of blue compact galaxies confronted to the model grid
4 Model predictions for the collisional excitation of hydrogen lines
5 The effect of H collisional excitation on the derived helium abundances for a few selected blue compact galaxies
6 Conclusion and prospects
References

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