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Promising methods for studying galaxy evolution rely on optical emission line width measurements to compare intermediate-redshift objects to galaxies with equivalent masses at the present epoch. However, emission lines can be misleading. We…

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We use JWST/NIRCam medium band photometry in a single pointing of the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS) to identify 118 Extreme Emission Line Galaxies (EELGs) over $1.7 \lesssim z \lesssim 6.7$, selected using a set of color…

We investigate the systematic variation of the [OII]3727/Halpha flux line ratio as a function of various galaxy properties, i.e., luminosity, metallicity, reddening, and excitation state, for a sample of 1124 emission-line galaxies, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Mouhcine , I. Lewis , B. Jones , F. Lamareille , S. J. Maddox , T. Contini

The validity of oxygen and nitrogen abundances derived from the global emission-line spectra of galaxies via the P-method has been investigated using a collection of published spectra of individual HII regions in irregular and spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. S. Pilyugin , T. Contini , J. M. Vilchez

We derived a bi-dimensional calibration between the emission line ratios R23=([O II]3726+3729+[O II]4959+5007)/Hb, P=[([O II]4959+5007)/Hb]/R23 and the oxygen abundance relative to hydrogen (O/H) in the gas phase of Seyferts 1 and 2 nuclei.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-27 Dors , O. L

We selected 27244 nearby, red, giant early-type galaxies (RGEs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In a large fraction (53%) of their spectra the [O III] emission line is detected, with an equivalent width (EW) distribution strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alessandro Capetti , Ranieri D. Baldi

We study the direct gas-phase oxygen abundance using the well-detected auroral [OIII]4363 line in the stacked spectra of a sample of local analogs of high-redshift galaxies. These local analogs share the same location as $z\sim2$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-25 Fuyan Bian , Lisa J. Kewley , Michael A. Dopita

We measure the gas-phase oxygen abundances of ~3000 star-forming galaxies at z=0.05-0.75 using optical spectrophotometry from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES), a spectroscopic survey of I_AB<20.45 galaxies over 7.9 deg^2 in the…

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…

We infer stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients for a sample of red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Main galaxy sample. Because this sample does not have multiple spectra at various radii in a single galaxy, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Benjamin Roig , Michael R. Blanton , Renbin Yan

We present $[OIII]/H_{\rm \beta}$ emision line flux ratio predictions for galaxies at $z \sim 7-9$ using the MAPPINGS V v5.2.0 photoionization modelling code combined with an analytic galaxy formation model. Properties such as pressure and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 Aadarsh Pathak , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Ralph S. Sutherland , L. J Kewley

We derive a sample of 114 Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich diagram - star formation (BPT-SF) and Wide-field infrared Survey Exploer - low star formation rate (WISE-LSFR) early-type galaxies (ETGs) by utilizing the criterion W2-W3$<2.5$ (where W2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Wu Yu-zhong , Zhang Wei

We present rest-frame optical spectra for a sample of 9 low-mass star-forming galaxies in the redshift range 1.5 < z < 3 which are gravitationally lensed by foreground clusters. We used Triplespec, an echelle spectrograph at the Palomar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sirio Belli , Tucker Jones , Richard S. Ellis , Johan Richard

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

We present gas-phase metallicity measurements for 583 emission line galaxies at $0.3<z<0.85$, including 388 dwarf galaxies with $log(M_{\star}/M_{\odot}) < 9.5$, and explore the dependence of the metallicity on the stellar mass and star…

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 present a simple functional form for the joint distribution of R-band luminosity and [OII] 3727 emission-line equivalent widths of galaxies, and show that this form is a good fit to the galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Blanton , Huan Lin

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

With the aim of building a data-set of spectral properties of well studied early-type galaxies showing emission lines, we present intermediate resolution spectra of 50 galaxies in the nearby Universe. The sample, which covers several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Rampazzo , F. Annibali , A. Bressan , M. Longhetti , F. Padoan , W. W. Zeilinger