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大样本低金属度发射线星系光度-金属度关系的研究

An investigation of the luminosity-metallicity relation for a large sample of low-metallicity emission-line galaxies

N. G. Guseva, P. Papaderos, H. T. Meyer, Y. I. Izotov, K. J. Fricke

摘要:

本文给出了16个发射线星系28个HII区的8.2mVLT光谱观测和28个发射线星系38个HII区的3.6mESO望远镜光谱观测。这些发射线星系主要是从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的数据发布6(DR 6)中选出的,作为缺金属星系的候选者。我们收集光度和高质量的光谱数据,包括新的观测恒星形成星系的大型统一样本。我们的目的是研究邻近星系的光度-金属丰度(L-Z)关系,特别是在其低金属丰度端,并与高红移星系的光度-金属丰度(L-Z)关系进行比较。从我们的新观测中,我们发现在我们样品的66个HII区域中的61个中的氧丰度范围从12+logO/H=7.05到8.22。我们的样本包括27个12+logO/H<7.6的新星系,它们符合极贫金属恒星形成星系(XBCD)的条件。其中有10个HII区,12+logO/H<7.3。新的样本与另外93个低金属量星系相结合,这些星系具有我们以前研究中精确的氧丰度测定,总共产生了154个HII区域的高质量光谱数据集。主要基于Te方法,从SDSS中编译了9000多个具有氧丰度的星系。我们的数据集跨越了8等的范围,相对于它的绝对星等SDSS g(-12>Mg>-20)和近2倍的氧丰度(7.0<12+logO/H<8.8),使我们能够探测附近宇宙的L-Z关系,直到目前研究的最低金属丰度水平。在本样品的基础上建立的L-Z关系与以前获得的发射线星系是一致的。

英文摘要:

(abridged) We present 8.2m VLT spectroscopic observations of 28 HII regions in 16 emission-line galaxies and 3.6m ESO telescope spectroscopic observations of 38 HII regions in 28 emission-line galaxies. These emission-line galaxies were selected mainly from the Data Release 6 (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as metal-deficient galaxy candidates. We collect photometric and high-quality spectroscopic data for a large uniform sample of star forming galaxies including new observations. Our aim is to study the luminosity-metallicity (L-Z) relation for nearby galaxies, especially at its low-metallicity end and compare it with that for higher-redshift galaxies. From our new observations we find that the oxygen abundance in 61 out of the 66 HII regions of our sample ranges from 12+logO/H=7.05 to 8.22. Our sample includes 27 new galaxies with 12+logO/H<7.6 which qualify as extremely metal-poor star-forming galaxies (XBCDs). Among them are 10 HII regions with 12+logO/H<7.3. The new sample is combined with a further 93 low-metallicity galaxies with accurate oxygen abundance determinations from our previous studies, yielding in total a high-quality spectroscopic data set of 154 HII regions. 9000 more galaxies with oxygen abundances, based mainly on the Te-method, are compiled from the SDSS. Our data set spans a range of 8 mag with respect to its absolute magnitude in SDSS g (-12>Mg>-20) and nearly 2 dex in its oxygen abundance (7.0<12+logO/H<8.8), allowing us to probe the L-Z relation in the nearby universe down to the lowest currently studied metallicity level. The L-Z relation established on the basis of the present sample is consistent with previous ones obtained for emission-line galaxies.

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