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明亮HII星系的精确丰度分析

Precision abundance analysis of bright HII galaxies

Guillermo F. Hagele, Angeles I. Diaz, Elena Terlevich, Roberto Terlevich, Enrique Perez-Montero, Monica V. Cardaci

摘要:

我们提出了高信号噪声分光光度观测的七个发光HII星系。观测是用双臂摄谱仪进行的,它提供了一个给定星系完全相同区域的宽波长范围的光谱,从3400到10400 nm,没有二级效应。采用旨在获得电离气体中氧、硫、氮、氖、氩和铁的准确元素丰度的方法对这些观察结果进行分析。四个电子温度和一个电子密度来自使用五能级原子近似下观察到的禁戒线比。对于我们最好的目标,t_e([OIII])的误差为1%,t_e([OII])的误差为3%,t_e([SIII])的误差为5%,总氧丰度O/H的精度为7%。星云的电离结构可以用理论上的氧和硫离子比率,以及相应的观测到的发射线比率(η和η'图)来绘制。两者的结合,提供了一种手段来测试光电离模型序列目前应用于推导元素丰度HII星系。

英文摘要:

We present high signal-to-noise spectrophotometric observations of seven luminous HII galaxies. The observations have been made with the use of a double-arm spectrograph which provides spectra with a wide wavelength coverage, from 3400 to 10400Åfree of second order effects, of exactly the same region of a given galaxy. These observations are analysed applying a methodology designed to obtain accurate elemental abundances of oxygen, sulphur, nitrogen, neon, argon and iron in the ionized gas. Four electron temperatures and one electron density are derived from the observed forbidden line ratios using the five-level atom approximation. For our best objects errors of 1% in t_e([OIII]), 3% in t_e([OII]) and 5% in t_e([SIII]) are achieved with a resulting accuracy of 7% in total oxygen abundances, O/H. The ionisation structure of the nebulae can be mapped by the theoretical oxygen and sulphur ionic ratios, on the one side, and the corresponding observed emission line ratios, on the other -- the ηand η' plots --. The combination of both is shown to provide a means to test photo-ionisation model sequences currently applied to derive elemental abundances in HII galaxies.

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