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早型螺线环核恒星形成区的金属丰度。分光光度观测

The metal abundance of circumnuclear star forming regions in early type spirals. Spectrophotometric observations

Angeles I. Diaz, Elena Terlevich, Marcelo Castellanos, Guillermo F. Hagele

摘要:

对早型旋涡星系NGC 2903、NGC 3351和NGC 3504的12个环核HII区进行了光学和近红外长缝观测,并计算了它们的化学丰度。只有在其中一个区域,[SIII] $λ$ 6312被探测到,连同在$λλ$ 9069,9532的星云[SIII]线,提供了T $_e$([SIII])= 8400 $^{+ 4650}_{-1250}$ K的电子温度值。本文提出了一种半经验方法,用于推导高金属丰度区的丰度。我们得到的丰度是可比的高金属丰度盘HII地区的电子温度的直接测量和太阳能值内的错误相一致。具有最高氧丰度的区域是NGC 3504中的R3+R4,12+log(O/H)= 8.85,如果将太阳氧丰度设定为Asplund等人(2005)得出的值,则约为1.5太阳,12+log(O/H)$_{\odot}$ = 8.66 $\pm$ 0.05。NGC 3351中的R7区域是样本中氧丰度最低的区域,约为太阳的0.6倍。在所有观察到的CNSFR的O/H丰度占主导地位的O $^+$ /H $^+$的贡献,也是高金属丰度盘HII地区的情况。然而,对于我们观察到的区域,S $^+$ /S $^{2+}$的比值也大于1,这与在高金属丰度盘HII区域中发现的相反,在高金属丰度盘HII区域中,硫丰度通常由S $^{2+}$ /H $^+$主导。

英文摘要:

We have obtained long-slit observations in the optical and near infrared of 12 circumnuclear HII regions (CNSFR) in the early type spiral galaxies NGC 2903, NGC 3351 and NGC 3504 with the aim of deriving their chemical abundances. Only for one of the regions, the [SIII] $λ$ 6312 Åwas detected providing, together with the nebular [SIII] lines at $λλ$ 9069, 9532 Å, a value of the electron temperature of T$_e$([SIII])= 8400$^{+ 4650}_{-1250}$K. A semi-empirical method for the derivation of abundances in the high metallicity regime is presented. We obtain abundances which are comparable to those found in high metallicity disc HII regions from direct measurements of electron temperatures and consistent with solar values within the errors. The region with the highest oxygen abundance is R3+R4 in NGC 3504, 12+log(O/H) = 8.85, about 1.5 solar if the solar oxygen abundance is set at the value derived by Asplund et al. (2005), 12+log(O/H)$_{\odot}$ = 8.66$\pm$0.05. Region R7 in NGC 3351 has the lowest oxygen abundance of the sample, about 0.6 times solar. In all the observed CNSFR the O/H abundance is dominated by the O$^+$/H$^+$ contribution, as is also the case for high metallicity disc HII regions. For our observed regions, however, also the S$^+$/S$^{2+}$ ratio is larger than one, contrary to what is found in high metallicity disc HII regions for which, in general, the sulphur abundances are dominated by S$^{2+}$/H$^+$...

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