Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2017
Dielectronic recombination coefficients have been calculated for some ions of C, N and O by Storey (1981, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 195, 27P). Using the same approach, we have extended those calculations to all other ions of C, N and O for which a dielectronic contribution to the total recombination coefficient might be expected at nebular temperatures. Recombination coefficients have been calculated in the temperature range from 5000 K up to the temperature at which the Burgess general formula becomes valid. The total dielectronic recombination coefficients are fitted to a simple function of the electron temperature.