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The abundances of iron and oxygen are homogeneously determined in a sample of 523 nearby (d<150 pc) FGK disk and halo stars with metallicities in the range -1.5<[Fe/H]<0.5. The oxygen abundances were inferred from a restricted non-LTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Ramirez , C. Allende Prieto , D. L. Lambert

Galactic chemical evolution model calculations indicate that there should be considerable scatter in the observed N/O ratios at a fixed metallicity (O/H) for galaxies with very low metallicities due to the delayed release of primary N from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Limin Lu , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Thomas A. Barlow

Spectroscopic observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed young, compact, high-redshift ($z$) galaxies with high nitrogen-to-oxygen (N/O) ratios. GN-z11 at z=10.6 is one of these galaxies. One possible scenario for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Sho Ebihara , Michiko S. Fujii , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai , Hideyuki Umeda , Yuki Isobe , Chris Nagele

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 show that in order to minimize the uncertainties in the N and O abundances of low mass, low metallicity (O/H less than or equal to solar/5) emission-line galaxies, it is necessary to employ separate parameterizations for inferring Te[N…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Nava , D. Casebeer , R. B. C. Henry , D. Jevremovic

CNO abundances in galaxies bear on issues of galactic evolution as well as stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. Knowledge about them in dwarf and spiral galaxies depends mainly on emission lines from H II regions, with information from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. E. J. Pagel

The oxygen and nitrogen abundance evolutions with redshift and galaxy stellar mass in emission-line SDSS galaxies are investigated. This is the first such study for nitrogen abundances, and it provides an additional constraint for the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. X. Thuan , L. S. Pilyugin , I. A. Zinchenko

We show the dependence of the Bayesian and the N2-derived oxygen abundances on the N-enrichment history of the star-forming galaxies. We select 531 metal-poor and ~20,000 metal-rich galaxies from the SDSS database for this study. Their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. C. Liang , S. Y. Yin

The Nitrogen-to-Oxygen (N/O) abundance ratio is an important diagnostic of galaxy evolution since the ratio is closely tied to the growth of metallicity and the star formation history in galaxies. Estimates for the N/O ratio are…

We present detailed spectroscopic analysis of nitrogen abundances in 31 unevolved metal-poor stars analysed by spectral synthesis of the near-UV NH band at 3360 A observed at high resolution with various telescopes. We found that [N/Fe]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Israelian , A. Ecuvillon , R. Rebolo , R. Garcia Lopez , P. Bonifacio , P. Molaro

Due to their different nucleosynthetic origin, a stellar population produces oxygen (O) and iron (Fe) on different timescales and their relative abundance can deviate strongly from solar. Galaxy formation models should treat these elements…

The nitrogen to carbon (N/C) and nitrogen to oxygen (N/O) ratios are the most sensitive quantities to mixing in stellar interiors of intermediate and massive stars. We further investigate the theoretical properties of these ratios as well…

We show that the excess of nitrogen emission observed in a large sample of Starburst Nucleus Galaxies (SBNGs) can only be explained at a given metallicity by an overabundance of nitrogen with respect to normal HII regions in the disks of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Coziol , R. E. Carlos Reyes , S. Considere , E. Davoust , T. Contini

We present FOS observations of O III] 1666 A and C III] 1909 A emission in H II regions in dwarf irregular galaxies to measure C/O abundance ratios in those galaxies. We observe a continuous increase in C/O with increasing O/H over the…

Sensitive measurements of the interstellar gas-phase oxygen abundance have revealed a slight oxygen deficiency ($\sim$ 15%) toward stars within 500 pc of the Sun as compared to more distant sightlines. Recent $FUSE$ observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David C. Knauth , James T. Lauroesch , David M. Meyer

Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (CNO) are key elements in stellar formation and evolution, and their abundances should also have a significant impact on planetary formation and evolution. We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 74…

We derive the oxygen abundance (O/H), the nitrogen-to-oxygen (N/O) abundance ratio, and their corresponding radial gradients for a sample of 1431 galaxies from MaNGA DR15 survey using two different realizations of the strong line method:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 I. A. Zinchenko , J. M. Vilchez , E. Perez-Montero , A. V. Sukhorukov , M. Sobolenko , S. Duarte Puertas

The damped Lyman alpha systems seen in the spectra of high redshift QSOs offer the means to determine element abundances in galaxies observed while still at an early stage of evolution. Such measurements, which have only recently come…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Max Pettini , Keith Lipman , Richard W. Hunstead

The chemical evolution of galaxies on a cosmological timescale is still a matter of debate despite the increasing number of available data provided by spectroscopic surveys of star-forming galaxies at different redshifts. The fundamental…

We present a first-of-its-kind analysis of the metal content across two interstellar medium (ISM) phases in a sample of 31 local star-forming galaxies from the COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopic SurveY (CLASSY), selected as analogues of…