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Table 1.
Ionising luminosities, Q, adopted for OB stars in Sternberg et al. (2003), white dwarfs (Hills 1973; Casewell et al. 2012) and the resulting ionising fluxes, FLyC, reaching the top of the irradiated atmosphere for the quoted separations.
| Source | Teff [K] | Q [photons s−1] | d | FLyC [photons s−1 cm−2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O3 | 51230 | 7.41 × 1049 | 0.5 pc | 2.5 × 1013 |
| B0 | 33340 | 1.05 × 1048 | 0.5 pc | 3.5 × 1010 |
| WD | 14748 | 2.75 × 1041 | 0.006 AU | 2.7 × 1018 |
| ISRF | – | – | – | 3.0 × 107 |
Notes. For the ISRF, the ionising flux is taken from Reynolds (1984).
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