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We present high S/N spectroscopy of 15 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) cataloged in the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS), selected for their possession of high equivalent width [O III] lines. The primary goal of this study was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Alec S. Hirschauer , John J. Salzer , Fabio Bresolin , Ivo Saviane , Irina Yegorova

We derive metal abundance estimates for a large sample of starbursting emission-line galaxies (ELGs). Our sample is drawn from the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS) which has discovered over 2000 ELG candidates to date.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 Jason Melbourne , John J. Salzer

Large surveys of galaxies in the local and high-redshift Universe have, traditionally, relied on the intensity of rest-optical emission lines from metal ions in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) to indirectly estimate the O/H abundance in the…

We present a chemical analysis of selected HII regions from the PHANGS-MUSE nebular catalogue. Our intent is to empirically re-calibrate strong-line diagnostics of gas-phase metallicity, applicable across a wide range of metallicities…

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

The advent of 8--10 meter class telescopes enables direct measurement of the chemical properties in the ionized gas of cosmologically--distant galaxies with the same nebular analysis techniques used in local H II regions. We show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry A. Kobulnicky , Robert C. Kennicutt , James L. Pizagno

The gravitational potential is established as a critical determinant of gas-phase metallicity (12+log(O/H)) in low-redshift galaxies, whereas its influence remains unconfirmed at high redshifts. We investigate the correlation between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-05 Cheng Jia , Enci Wang , Cheqiu Lyu , Chengyu Ma , Jie Song , Yangyao Chen , Kai Wang , Haoran Yu , Zeyu Chen , Jinyang Wang , Yifan Wang , Xu Kong

We present a sample of low-redshift (z<0.133) candidates for extremely low-metallicity star-forming galaxies with oxygen abundances 12+logO/H<7.4 selected from the Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three methods…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Y. I. Izotov , N. G. Guseva , K. J. Fricke , C. Henkel

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 investigate electron temperature (Te) and gas-phase oxygen abundance (Z_Te) measurements for galaxies in the local Universe (z < 0.25). Our sample comprises spectra from a total of 264 emission-line systems, ranging from individual HII…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 Robert M. Yates , Patricia Schady , Ting-Wan Chen , Tassilo Schweyer , Philip Wiseman

Much of what is known of the chemical composition of the universe is based on emission line spectra from star forming galaxies. Emission-based inferences are, nevertheless, model-dependent and they are dominated by light from luminous star…

Physical properties of galaxies at z>7 are of interest for understanding both the early phases of star formation and the process of cosmic reionization. Chemical abundance measurements offer valuable information on the integrated star…

Gas metallicity, ionization parameter, and gas pressure can affect the observed ratios of specific strong emission lines within galaxies. While the theoretical strong lines diagnostics for gas metallicity, ionization parameters, and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Peixin Zhu , Lisa J. Kewley , Ralph Sutherland

We present empirical calibrations that estimate stellar metallicity, effective temperature and surface gravity as a function of Lick/IDS indices. These calibrations have been derived from a training set of 261 stars for which (1)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sarah E. Robinson , Jay Strader , S. Mark Ammons , Gregory Laughlin , Debra Fischer

We report the first gas-phase metallicity map of a distant galaxy measured with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We use the NIRISS slitless spectroscopy acquired by the GLASS Early Release Science program to spatially resolve the…

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

We measured the oxygen abundances of the warm (T$\sim 10^{4}K$) phase of gas in seven early-type galaxies through long-slit observations. A template spectra was constructed from galaxies void of warm gas and subtracted from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alex E. Athey , Joel N. Bregman

Empirically measuring the primordial He mass fraction, $Y_{\rm p}$, requires a significant number of low-metallicity nebulae with direct constraints on He/H and O/H abundances. This technique requires high-fidelity measurements of the…

Aims. We present a continuation of our study about the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). In this work we extend the determination of metallicities up to redshift = 1.24 for a sample…