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Absorption-line spectroscopy of 23 background QSOs and numerous background galaxies has let us measure the spatial distribution of metals and neutral hydrogen around 1044 UV-selected galaxies at redshifts 1.8<z<3.3. The typical galaxy is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. L. Adelberger , A. E. Shapley , C. C. Steidel , M. Pettini , D. K. Erb , N. A. Reddy

We have performed a detailed oxygen abundance analysis of 23 metal-poor (-3.0<[Fe/H]<-0.3) unevolved halo stars and one giant through the OH bands in the near UV, using high-resolution echelle spectra. Oxygen is found to be overabundant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Israelian , R. Garcia Lopez , R. Rebolo

We have studied the abundance of oxygen in the IGM by analyzing OVI, CIV, SiIV, and HI pixel optical depths derived from a set of high-quality VLT and Keck spectra of 17 QSOs at 2.1 < z < 3.6. Comparing OVI and CIV optical depth ratios to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony Aguirre , Corey Dow-Hygelund , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns

We present a sample of 48 metal-poor galaxies at $ z < 0.14$ selected from 92,510 galaxies in the LAMOST survey. These galaxies are identified for their detection of the auroral emission line \oiii$\lambda$4363 above $3\sigma$ level, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Yulong Gao , Jianhui Lian , Xu Kong , Zesen Lin , Ning Hu , Haiyang Liu , Enci Wang , Zihuang Cao , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Yong Zhang

The abundances of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM) can be used to constrain the amount of star formation at high redshift and the spectral shape of the ionizing background radiation. For both purposes it is essential to measure the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joop Schaye , Michael Rauch , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Tae-Sun Kim

We measure the gas-phase oxygen abundances in 4 Lyman Break Analogs (LBAs) using auroral emission lines to derive direct abundances. The direct method oxygen abundances of these objects are generally consistent with the empirically-derived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-17 Jonathan S. Brown , Kevin V. Croxall , Richard W. Pogge

We have identified a sample of 41 low-mass high--oxygen abundance outliers from the mass--metallicity relation of star-forming galaxies measured by Tremonti et al (2004). These galaxies, which have 8.6 < [12 + log(O/H)] < 9.3 over a range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Molly S. Peeples , Richard W. Pogge , K. Z. Stanek

We present the largest direct-method abundance catalogue of galaxies to date, containing measurements of 49$\,$959 star-forming galaxies at $z < 0.96$ from DESI Data Release 2. By directly measuring electron temperatures across multiple…

We present elemental abundances for multiple HII regions in Leo A and GR 8 obtained from long slit optical spectroscopy of these two nearby low luminosity dwarf irregular galaxies. As expected from their luminosities, and in agreement with…

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

We measure oxygen and nitrogen abundances for 14 star-forming emission line galaxies (ELGs) at 0.11<z<0.5 using Keck/LRIS optical spectroscopy. The targets exhibit a range of metallicities from slightly metal-poor like the LMC to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Henry A. Kobulnicky , Dennis Zaritsky

The relations between oxygen abundance and disk surface brightness (OH-SB relation) in the infrared W1 band are examined for a nearby late-type galaxies. The oxygen abundances were presented in Paper I. The photometric characteristics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 L. S. Pilyugin , E. K. Grebel , I. A. Zinchenko , A. Y. Kniazev

We systematically measure the gas-phase metallicities and the mass-metallicity relation of a large sample of local active galaxies for the first time. Observed emission-line fluxes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are compared to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Adam D. Thomas , Lisa J. Kewley , Michael A. Dopita , Brent A. Groves , Andrew M. Hopkins , Ralph S. Sutherland

Using a large sample of 38,478 star-forming galaxies selected from the Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database (SDSS-DR2), we derive analytical calibrations for oxygen abundances from several metallicity-sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. C. Liang , S. Y. Yin , F. Hammer , L. C. Deng , H. Flores , B. Zhang

We present follow-up spectra of 39 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS). Many targets were selected as potentially low metallicity systems based on their absolute B magnitudes and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Melbourne , A. Phillips , J. Salzer , C. Gronwall , V. Sarajedini

In this paper, we present systematic studies on the B-, R- and $K_s$-band luminosity-metallicity (L-Z) relations for a set of metal poor, blue compact dwarf galaxies. Metallicity is derived by using both the empirical N2 and the direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-11 Yinghe Zhao , Yu Gao , Qiusheng Gu

We present chemical abundances and radial velocities of six HII regions in the extremely metal-poor star-forming dwarf galaxy DDO 68. They are derived from deep spectra in the wavelength range 3500 - 10,000 {\AA}, acquired with the Multi…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 F. Annibali , V. La Torre , M. Tosi , C. Nipoti , F. Cusano , A. Aloisi , M. Bellazzini , L. Ciotti , A. Marchetti , M. Mignoli , D. Romano , E. Sacchi

We present new measurements of the interstellar gas-phase oxygen abundance along the sight lines towards 19 early-type galactic stars at an average distance of 2.6 kpc. We derive O {\small I} column densities from {\it HST}/STIS…

We present two samples of $\hii$ galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic observations data release 3. The electron temperatures($T_e$) of 225 galaxies are calculated with the photoionized $\hii$ model and $T_e$ of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 F. Shi , X. Kong , F. Z. Cheng

We present N/O abundance ratios, ionization parameters {$q_{\rm ion}$}, and oxygen abundance O/H for a total of 41 galaxies (11 individual galaxies and a 30-galaxy stack) including {Ly$\alpha$} emitters and Lyman break galaxies at $z\sim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Takashi Kojima , Masami Ouchi , Kimihiko Nakajima , Takatoshi Shibuya , Yuichi Harikane , Yoshiaki Ono

We present deep echelle spectrophotometry of the brightest emission-line knots of the star-forming galaxies He 2-10, Mkn 1271, NGC 3125, NGC 5408, POX 4, SDSS J1253-0312, Tol 1457-262, Tol 1924-416 and the HII region Hubble V in the Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Esteban , J. García-Rojas , L. Carigi , M. Peimbert , F. Bresolin , A. R. López-Sánchez , A. Mesa-Delgado