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高红移星系中的化学丰度:一种强有力的新发射谱线诊断

Chemical abundances in high-redshift galaxies: A powerful new emission line diagnostic

Michael A. Dopita, Lisa J. Kewley, Ralph S. Sutherland, David C. Nicholls

摘要:

这封信提出了一个新的,非常简单的诊断,专门设计用于获得高红移星系的化学丰度。它仅使用H α、[N II]和[S II]发射谱线,这些谱线通常可以在单个门控设定中观察到,并且在高达12+log(O/H)= 9.05的丰度下几乎呈线性。它可以在高红移星系中遇到的全部丰度范围内使用。通过使用波长上靠近在一起的发射线,它也与红化无关。我们的诊断关键取决于N/O比的校准。然而,通过使用真实的恒星大气,结合从恒星和H II区域局部导出的N/O与O/H丰度校准,并考虑到高红移H II区域具有高电离参数\emph{and}高气压的事实,我们发现高红移星系的观测可以简单地由模型解释,而不必调用N/O比的任意变化,或者这些星系中存在着不寻常数量的沃尔夫-拉叶星。

英文摘要:

This Letter presents a new, remarkably simple diagnostic specifically designed to derive chemical abundances for high redshift galaxies. It uses only the H α, [N II] and [S II] emission lines, which can usually be observed in a single gating stetting, and is almost linear up to an abundance of 12+log (O/H) = 9.05. It can be used over the full abundance range encountered in high redshift galaxies. By its use of emission lines located close together in wavelength, it is also independent of reddening. Our diagnostic depends critically on the calibration of the N/O ratio. However, by using realistic stellar atmospheres combined with the N/O vs. O/H abundance calibration derived locally from stars and H II regions, and allowing for the fact that high-redshift H II regions have both high ionisation parameters \emph{and} high gas pressures, we find that the observations of high-redshift galaxies can be simply explained by the models without having to invoke arbitrary changes in N/O ratio, or the presence of unusual quantities of Wolf-Rayet stars in these galaxies.

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