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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

We present long slit optical spectroscopy of 67 HII regions in 21 dwarf irregular galaxies to investigate the enrichment of oxygen, nitrogen, neon, sulfur, and argon in low mass galaxies. Oxygen abundances are obtained via direct detection…

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

We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of nitrogen abundances in 91 solar-type stars, 66 with and 25 without known planetary mass companions. All comparison sample stars and 28 planet hosts were analysed by spectral synthesis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Ecuvillon , G. Israelian , N. C. Santos , M. Mayor , R. J. García López , S. Randich

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 report the detection of the [O III] auroral line in 42 galaxies within the redshift range of $3 < z < 10$. These galaxies were selected from publicly available JWST data releases, including the JADES and PRIMALsurveys, and observed using…

Recent new high-precision abundance data for Galactic halo stars suggest important primary nitrogen production in very metal-poor massive stars. Here, we compute a new model for the chemical evolution of the Milky Way aimed at explaining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Chiappini , F. Matteucci , S. K. Ballero

For the first time, we establish a gas phase abundance pattern calibration for quiescent galaxies using optical emission lines. Quiescent galaxies have warm ionized gas showing line ratios similar to low-ionization nuclear emission line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Renbin Yan

Over the past few years \textit{JWST} has been a major workhorse in detecting and constraining the metal enrichment of the first galaxies in the early Universe and finding the source of the ionisation of their interstellar medium. In this…

The new era of galaxy evolution studies hearkened in by JWST has led to the discovery of z > 5 galaxies exhibiting excess nitrogen with log(N/O)~1 dex or more than expected from log(N/O) vs 12+log(O/H) trends in the local Universe. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Sophia R. Flury , Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova , Edward C. Moran , Alaina Einsig

Recent observations of GN-z11 with JWST/NIRSpec revealed numerous oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium emission lines at $z=10.6$. Using the measured line fluxes, we derive abundance ratios of individual elements within the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Alex J. Cameron , Harley Katz , Martin P. Rey , Aayush Saxena

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

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

We report results from the third in a series of nebular abundance studies of emission-line galaxies from the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS). Galaxies with coarse metallicity estimates of 12 + log(O/H) less than 8.2 dex were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Janice C. Lee , John J. Salzer , Jason Melbourne

We present chemical evolution models aimed at reproducing the observed (N/O) vs. (O/H) abundance pattern of star forming galaxies in the Local Universe. We derive gas-phase abundances from SDSS spectroscopy and a complementary sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Francesco Belfiore , Roberto Maiolino , Francesca Matteucci , Paolo Ventura

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…

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 report the chemical abundance pattern of GS\_3073, a galaxy at $z=5.55$ which was previously confirmed to host an overmassive active black hole, by leveraging the detection of about 40 emission lines, combining JWST/NIRSpec observations…

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 the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) for a parent sample of 604 galaxies at $z=5.34-6.94$ with \OIII\ doublets detected, using the deep JWST/NIRCam wide field slitless spectroscopic (WFSS) observations in 26 quasar fields. The…

(abridged) We present deep spectroscopy of a large sample of low-metallicity emission-line galaxies. The main goal of this study is to derive element abundances in these low-metallicity galaxies. We analyze 121 VLT spectra of HII regions in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-08 N. G. Guseva , Y. I. Izotov , G. Stasinska , K. J. Fricke , C. Henkel , P. Papaderos