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We analyze the evolution of nitrogen resulting from a set of spiral and irregular galaxy models computed for a large number of input mass radial distributions and with various star formation efficiencies. We show that our models produce a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-21 M. Mollá , J. M. Vílchez , A. I. Díaz , M. Gavilán

Galactic chemical evolution model calculations indicate that there should be considerable scatter in the observed N/O ratios at a fixed metallicity (O/H) for galaxies with very low metallicities due to the delayed release of primary N from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Limin Lu , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Thomas A. Barlow

We present element-to-element abundance ratios measured from high dispersion spectra for 150 field subdwarfs and early subgiants with accurate Hipparcos parallaxes (errors <20%). For 50 stars new spectra were obtained with the UVES on…

(Abridged) We reassess the alpha-element abundance ratios (Ne/O, S/O, Ar/O) with respect to metallicity in ~1000 spectra of Galactic and extragalactic HII regions and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) of the local Universe. Using the DEep…

We discuss the evolution of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in galaxies of different morphological type by adopting detailed chemical evolution models with different star formation histories (continuous star formation or starbursts). We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Chiappini , Donatella Romano , Francesca Matteucci

Abundances of lithium, carbon, and oxygen have been derived using spectral synthesis for a sample of 249 bright F, G, and K Northern Hemisphere dwarf stars from the high-resolution spectra acquired with the VUES spectrograph at the Moletai…

Photospheric abundances are presented for 27 elements from carbon to europium in 181 F-G dwarfs from a differential LTE analysis of high-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra. Stellar $T_{\rm eff}$ were adopted from an infrared flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bacham E. Reddy , Jocelyn Tomkin , David L. Lambert , Carlos Allende Prieto

The chemical evolution of galaxies on a cosmological timescale is still a matter of debate despite the increasing number of available data provided by spectroscopic surveys of star-forming galaxies at different redshifts. The fundamental…

We examine the spectrum in the vicinity of the NH3360 index of Davidge & Clark (1994), which was defined to measure the NH absorption around 3360 \AA and which shows almost no trend with velocity dispersion (Toloba et al. 2009), unlike…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jedidiah Serven , Guy Worthey , Elisa Toloba , Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez

As JWST uncovers increasingly strong evidence that metal-poor, massive stars in early galaxies dominated reionization, observational constraints on the properties of such stars are more relevant than ever before. However, spectra of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Abby Mintz , O. Grace Telford , Evan N. Kirby , John Chisholm , Kristen B. W. McQuinn , Danielle Berg

We report the discovery of 34 stars in the Hamburg/ESO Survey for metal-poor stars and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that have [Fe/H] < -3.0. Their median and minimum abundances are [Fe/H] = -3.1 and -4.1, respectively, while 10 stars have…

High-resolution spectra of 13 core helium-burning stars in the thick disk of the Galaxy have been obtained with the SOFIN spectrograph on the Nordic Optical Telescope to investigate abundances of up to 22 chemical elements. Abundances of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Tautvaisiene , B. Edvardsson , I. Tuominen , I. Ilyin

We carried out a homogeneous abundance study for various elements, including $\alpha$-elements, iron peak elements and $n$-capture elements for 35 metal-poor stars with a wide metallicity range ($-3.0\lesssim$[Fe/H]$\lesssim-0.5$).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-02 Jeong-Deok Lee , Sang-Gak Lee , Kang-Min Kim

We calculate the evolution of heavy element abundances from C to Zn in the solar neighborhood adopting our new nucleosynthesis yields. Our yields are calculated for wide ranges of metallicity (Z=0-Z_\odot) and the explosion energy (normal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Kobayashi , H. Umeda , K. Nomoto , N. Tominaga , T. Ohkubo

We present a search for outlying HII regions in the extended gaseous outskirts of nearby (D < 40 Mpc) galaxies, and subsequent multi-slit spectroscopy used to obtain the HII region nebular oxygen abundances. The galaxies in our sample have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jessica Werk , Mary Putman , Gerhardt Meurer , Nitza Santiago-Figueroa

Aims. The aim of this work is to compare the detailed chemical composition of the field N-rich dwarf stars to the second generation stars of globular clusters (GC) in order to investigate the hypothesis that they originated in GCs. Methods.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-23 M Spite , F Spite , E Caffau , P Bonifacio , P François

Dwarf irregular galaxies appear to have undergone very slow chemical evolution since they have low nebular abundances, but have had ongoing star formation over the past 15 Gyr. They are too distant for red giant abundance analyses to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kim Venn , Eline Tolstoy , Andreas Kaufer , Rolf Peter Kudritzki

We investigate the production of nitrogen in star forming galaxies with ultraviolet (UV) radiation detected by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer Satellite (GALEX). We use a sample of 8,745 GALEX emission line galaxies matched to the Sloan…

We present a comparison of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) in 37 high-redshift galaxies at $z\sim$2 taken from the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity Review (KLEVER) Survey with a comparison sample of local galaxies, taken from the…

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