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Deep VLT/MUSE optical integral field spectroscopy has recently revealed an abundant population of ultra-faint galaxies ($M_{UV} \approx -15$; 0.01 $L_{\star}$) at $z=$2.9$-$6.7 due to their strong Lyman-$\alpha$ emission with no detectable…

We report the first spatially resolved measurements of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in star-forming galaxies in overdense environments at $z\gtrsim2$. The spectroscopic data are acquired by the \mg\ survey, a Hubble Space…

We investigate the Luminosity-Metallicity (L-Z) relation in the local universe (z < 0.15) using spectra of 6387 star-forming galaxies extracted from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. This sample is by far the largest to date used to perform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Lamareille , M. Mouhcine , T. Contini , I. Lewis , S. Maddox

We develop a prescription for estimating the interstellar medium oxygen abundances of distant star-forming galaxies using the ratio EWR_{23} formed from the equivalent widths of the [O II] 3727, [O III] 4959,5007 and Hbeta nebular emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chip Kobulnicky , Andrew Phillips

We present determinations of the gas-phase and stellar metallicities of a sample of 65 star-forming galaxies at $z \simeq 3.5$ using rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy from the VANDELS survey in combination with follow-up…

Understanding the spatial distribution of metals within galaxies allows us to study the processes of chemical enrichment and mixing in the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we map the two-dimensional distribution of metals using a…

The metallicity of diffuse ionised gas (DIG) cannot be determined using strong emission line diagnostics, which are calibrated to calculate the metallicity of Hii regions. Because of this, resolved metallicity maps from integral field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Benjamin Metha , Michele Trenti , Tingjin Chu , Andrew Battisti

We compare the oxygen abundance (O/H) of the Narrow Line Regions (NLRs) of Seyfert 2 AGNs obtained through strong-line methods and from direct measurements of the electron temperature (Te-method). The aim of this study is to explore the…

Direct observations of low-mass, low-metallicity galaxies at $z\gtrsim4$ provide an indispensable opportunity for detailed inspection of the ionization radiation, gas flow, and metal enrichment in sources similar to those that reionized the…

We present the evolution of the mass-metallicity (MZ) relations at z=4-10 derived with 135 galaxies identified in the JWST/NIRSpec data taken from the three major public spectroscopy programs of ERO, GLASS, and CEERS. Because there are many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Kimihiko Nakajima , Masami Ouchi , Yuki Isobe , Yuichi Harikane , Yechi Zhang , Yoshiaki Ono , Hiroya Umeda , Masamune Oguri

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

We investigate how HII region temperature structure assumptions affect "direct-method" spatially-resolved metallicity observations using multispecies auroral lines in a galaxy from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. SAMI609396B, at redshift $z=0.018$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Alex J. Cameron , Tiantian Yuan , Michele Trenti , David C. Nicholls , Lisa J. Kewley

We use the calibrations by Calamida et al. and by Hilker et al., and the standardised synthetic photometry in the v, b, and y Stromgren passbands from Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra, to obtain photometric metallicities for a selected sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Bellazzini M. , Massari D. , De Angeli F. , Mucciarelli A. , Bragaglia. A , Riello M. , Montegriffo P.

We present results on the z~2.3 mass-metallicity relation (MZR) using early observations from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey. We use an initial sample of 87 star-forming galaxies with spectroscopic coverage of H\beta,…

The stellar metallicity is a direct measure of the amount of metals present in a galaxy, as a large part of the metals lie in its stars. In this paper we investigate new stellar metallicity indicators suitable for high-z galaxies studying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Veronica Sommariva , Filippo Mannucci , Giovanni Cresci , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Tohru Nagao , Andrea Baroni , Andrea Grazian

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

We have re-evaluated empirical expressions for the abundance determination of N, O, Ne, S, Cl, Ar and Fe taking into account the latest atomic data and constructing an appropriate grid of photoionization models with state-of-the art model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Y. I. Izotov , G. Stasinska , G. Meynet , N. G. Guseva , T. X. Thuan

We present a method to estimate the total gas column density, dust-to-gas and dust-to-metal ratios of distant galaxies from rest-frame optical spectra. The technique exploits the sensitivity of certain optical lines to changes in depletion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jarle Brinchmann , Stéphane Charlot , Guinevere Kauffmann , Tim Heckman , Simon D. M. White , Christy Tremonti

The emission line survey within the Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey (CADIS) detects galaxies with very low continuum brightness by using an imaging Fabry-Perot interferometer. With spectroscopic follow-up observations of MB>~-19 CADIS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Maier , K. Meisenheimer , H. Hippelein

Gas-phase metallicities of galaxies are typically measured through auroral or nebular emission lines, but metallicity also leaves an imprint on the overall spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy and can be estimated through SED…