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The dominant form of nitrogen provided to most solar system bodies is currently unknown, though available measurements show that the detected nitrogen in solar system rocks and ices is depleted with respect to solar abundances and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kamber R. Schwarz , Edwin A. Bergin

Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift galaxies ($z\gtrsim5$) exhibiting unexpectedly bright ultraviolet (UV) nitrogen emission lines. The strong N III] and N IV] features imply nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-04 Peixin Zhu , James Trussler , Lisa J. Kewley

Ultraviolet nebular emission lines are important for understanding the time evolution and nucleosynthetic origins of their associated elements, but the underlying trends of their relative abundances are unclear. We present UV spectroscopy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Danielle A. Berg , Dawn K. Erb , Richard B. C. Henry , Evan D. Skillman , Kristen B. W. McQuinn

The problem of the origin of nitrogen is considered within the framework of an empirical approach. The oxygen abundances and nitrogen to oxygen abundances ratios are derived in HII regions of a number of spiral galaxies through the recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. S. Pilyugin , T. X. Thuan , J. M. Vilchez

[ABRIDGED]We study the carbon abundances with a twofold objective. On the one hand, we want to evaluate the behaviour of carbon in the context of Galactic chemical evolution. On the other hand, we focus on the possible dependence of carbon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 E. Delgado Mena , V. Adibekyan , N. C. Santos , M. Tsantaki , J. I. González Hernández , S. G. Sousa , S. Bertrán de Lis

In order to investigate the possible influence of rotation on the efficiency of the first dredge-up we determined atmospheric parameters, masses, and abundances of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in a sample of evolved intermediate mass stars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Smiljanic , B. Barbuy , J. R. De Medeiros , A. Maeder

We discuss the evolution of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in galaxies of different morphological type by adopting detailed chemical evolution models with different star formation histories (continuous star formation or starbursts). We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Chiappini , Donatella Romano , Francesca Matteucci

Abundance analysis of carbon has been performed in a sample of 80 late F and early G type dwarf stars in the metallicity range -1.06 < [Fe/H] < 0.26 using the forbidden [C I] line at 8727 A. This line is presumably less sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 B. Gustafsson , T. Karlsson , E. Olsson , B. Edvardsson , N. Ryde

We present long slit optical spectroscopy of 67 HII regions in 21 dwarf irregular galaxies to investigate the enrichment of oxygen, nitrogen, neon, sulfur, and argon in low mass galaxies. Oxygen abundances are obtained via direct detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. van Zee , M. P. Haynes

We analyze the impact on the Galactic nitrogen abundances of using a new set of low and intermediate mass star yields. These yields have a significant yield of primary nitrogen from intermediate mass stars. We use these yields as an input…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marta Gavilan , Mercedes Molla , James F. Buell

The main objective of the present work is to ckeck if the star formation efficiency plays a relevant role in the evolution of the relative abundance N/O. We analyze the evolution of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio as predicted by a set of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 M. Mollá , J. M. Vílchez , M. Gavilán , A. I. Díaz

The abundance of nitrogen in the interstellar medium is a powerful probe of star for- mation processes over cosmological timescales. Since nitrogen can be produced both in massive and intermediate-mass stars with metallicity-dependent…

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[ABRIDGED] We have determined carbon abundances for 51 dwarf stars and manganese abundances for 95 dwarf stars in two distinct and well defined stellar populations - the Galactic thin and thick disks. As these two populations have different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Thomas Bensby , Sofia Feltzing

We measure the nitrogen abundance in 5 Turn Off(TO) stars of the Globular Clusters NGC 6397 and NGC 6752, and compare the cluster abundances with those of field stars of comparable metallicity. We determine the nitrogen abundance from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-23 L. Pasquini , A. Ecuvillon , P. Bonifacio , B. Wolff

We investigate the oxygen and nitrogen abundance distributions across the optical disks of 130 nearby late-type galaxies using around 3740 published spectra of HII regions. We use these data in order to provide homogeneous abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 L. S. Pilyugin , E. K. Grebel , A. Y. Kniazev

Spectroscopic observations of 63 HII regions in six spiral galaxies (NGC 628, NGC 783, NGC 2336, NGC 6217, NGC 7331, and NGC 7678) were carried out with the 6-meter telescope (BTA) of Russian Special Astrophysical Observatory with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Alexander S. Gusev , Leonid S. Pilyugin , Firouz Sakhibov , Sergey N. Dodonov , Olga V. Ezhkova , Maria S. Khramtsova

Context. The recent detection of nitrogen-enhanced, metal-poor galaxies at high redshift by the James Webb Space Telescope has sparked renewed interest in exploring the chemical evolution of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (the CNO elements)…

During the million years of evolution, gas dust and ice in protoplanetary disks can be chemically reprocessed. There are evidences that the gas-phase carbon and oxygen abundances are sub-solar in disks belonging to nearby star forming…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 D. Fedele , C. Favre

The Hipparcos orbiting observatory has revealed a large number of helium-core-burning "clump" stars in the Galactic field. These low-mass stars exhibit signatures of extra-mixing processes that require modeling beyond the first dredge-up of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Tautvaisiene , B. Edvardsson , E. Puzeras , G. Barisevicius , I. Ilyin

We spectroscopically analyzed a sample of 85 Sloan Digital Sky Survey compact, oxygen-dominated galaxies located at redshift $z\sim0.001-0.350$, selected because of their large equivalent width of [O III]$\lambda$5007 (larger than 200\AA).…

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