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We present a sample of 22 blue ($(B-V)_{AB}<0.45$), luminous ($M_{B,AB}<-18.9$), metal-poor galaxies in the $0.69<z<0.88$ redshift range, selected from the DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey. Their spectra contain the $[OIII]\lambda4363$ auroral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 José M. Pérez , Carlos Hoyos , Ángeles I. Díaz , David C. Koo , Christopher N. Willmer

Knowledge of late K and M dwarf metallicities can be used to guide planet searches and constrain planet formation models. However, the determination of metallicities of late-type stars is difficult because visible wavelength spectra of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-16 Andrew W. Mann , John M. Brewer , Eric Gaidos , Sebastien Lepine , Eric J. Hilton

We present a sample of 86,111 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from the catalogue of the MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for SDSS DR7 to investigate the evolution of mass-metallicity (MZ) relation. We find that: under the $\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Yu-Zhong Wu , Wei Zhang , Yong-Heng Zhao

In this paper, we utilize high-quality rest-UV spectra of three radio galaxies at $z \sim$ 3 observed with VLT/FORS2 to measure the flux of several emission lines including relatively faint ones, such as NIV]$\lambda$1486,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Koki Terao , Tohru Nagao , Kyoko Onishi , Kenta Matsuoka , Masayuki Akiyama , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Takuji Yamashita

We present the most comprehensive set of empirical optical strong-line metallicity calibrations to date, based on the DEep Spectra of Ionised REgions Database (DESIRED), the largest compilation of HII regions and galaxies with direct…

The offset of high redshift star-forming galaxies in the [OIII]/H$\beta$ versus [NII]/H$\alpha$ (O3N2) diagram in comparison with the local star-forming galaxy sequence is now well established. The physical origin of the shift is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel Masters , Andreas Faisst , Peter Capak

We analyze the reliability of oxygen abundances and ionization parameters obtained from different diagnostic diagrams. For this, we compiled from the literature observational emission line intensities and oxygen abundance of 446…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 O. L. Dors , Angela Krabbe , Guillermo F. Hagele , Enrique Perez-Montero

We use photoionization models designed to reconcile the joint rest-UV-optical spectra of high-z star-forming galaxies to self-consistently infer the gas chemistry and nebular ionization and excitation conditions for ~150 galaxies from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Allison L. Strom , Charles C. Steidel , Gwen C. Rudie , Ryan F. Trainor , Max Pettini

The study of gas-phase metallicity and its spatial distribution at high redshift is crucial to understand the processes that shaped the growth and evolution of galaxies in the early Universe. Here we study the spatially resolved metallicity…

We analyze several key rest-optical emission-line ratios in a sample of 828 galaxies as well as composite spectra from JADES DR3 in the range $1.4 < z < 7$. These emission-line ratios include: [O III]$\lambda5008$/H$\beta$, [N II]$\lambda…

(Abridged) The knowledge of the number and of the physical nature of low-metallicity massive galaxies is crucial for the determination and interpretation of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR). Using VLT-ISAAC near-infrared (NIR)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-29 C. Maier , B. L. Ziegler , S. J. Lilly , T. Contini , E. Perez Montero , F. Lamareille , M. Bolzonella , E. Le Floc'h

Current emission-line based estimates of the metallicity of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at both high and low redshifts indicate that AGN have predominantly solar to supersolar metallicities. This leads to the question: do low metallicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brent Groves , Timothy Heckman , Guinevere Kauffmann

Local star-forming galaxies show properties that are thought to differ from galaxies in the early Universe. Among them, the ionizing stellar populations and the gas geometry make the recipes designed to derive chemical abundances from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 E. Pérez-Montero , R. Amorín , J. Sánchez Almeida , J. M. Vílchez , R. García-Benito , C. Kehrig

The competition between metal synthesis and feedback from massive stars establishes the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at low-redshifts. Examining this relation at higher redshifts, particularly at the low-mass end $\lesssim10^{8}\,{\rm…

(Abridged) We investigate the effect of metallicity calibrations, AGN classification, and aperture covering fraction on the local mass-metallicity (MZ) relation using 27,730 star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Lisa J. Kewley , Sara L. Ellison

We exploit the unprecedented depth of integral field data from the KMOS Ultra-deep Rotational Velocity Survey (KURVS) to analyse the strong (H$\alpha$) and forbidden ([NII], [SII]) emission line ratios in 22 main-sequence galaxies at…

We present the first semi-empirical strong-line calibrations to determine metallicity in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) that use the directly observable X-ray luminosity (Lx) instead of the dimensionless ionization parameter ($U$). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-06 Mark Armah , O. L. Dors , Rogério Riffel , M. V. Cardaci , G. F. Hägele , Rogemar A. Riffel , J. M. Vílchez

We present new constraints on the Mass -- Metallicity (MZR) and Fundamental Metallicity Relations (FMR) using a sample of 34 galaxies at $1.38\leq~z\leq~3.5$ (median $z=2.28$). These galaxies have direct $T_e$ measurements from…

This Letter presents a new, remarkably simple diagnostic specifically designed to derive chemical abundances for high redshift galaxies. It uses only the H \alpha, [N II] and [S II] emission lines, which can usually be observed in a single…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 Michael A. Dopita , Lisa J. Kewley , Ralph S. Sutherland , David C. Nicholls

We determine the gas-phase oxygen abundance for a sample of 695 galaxies and H II regions with reliable detections of [O III]4363, using the temperature-sensitive Te method. Our aims are to estimate the validity of empirical methods such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Yin , Y. C. Liang , F. Hammer , J. Brinchmann , B. Zhang , L. C. Deng , H. Flores
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