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We present high signal-to-noise spectrophotometric observations of seven luminous HII galaxies. The observations have been made with the use of a double-arm spectrograph which provides spectra with a wide wavelength coverage, from 3400 to…

We report interstellar C II column densities or upper limits determined from weak absorption of the 2325.4029 A intersystem transition observed in six translucent sightlines with STIS. The sightlines sample a wide range of interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 U. J. Sofia , J. T. Lauroesch , D. M. Meyer , S. I. B. Cartledge

We present a comprehensive survey of boron abundances in diffuse interstellar clouds from observations made with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) of the Hubble Space Telescope. Our sample of 56 Galactic sight lines is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 A. M. Ritchey , S. R. Federman , Y. Sheffer , D. L. Lambert

We study whether integrated optical spectroscopy of a disk galaxy can be used to infer the mean, or characteristic gas-phase oxygen abundance in the presence of systematic effects such as spatial abundance variations, contributions to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John Moustakas , Robert C. Kennicutt

Using high resolution infrared spectroscopy we have surveyed twenty sightlines for H3+ absorption. H3+ is detected in eight diffuse cloud sightlines with column densities varying from 0.6x10^14 cm^-2 to 3.9x10^14 cm^-2. This brings to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nick Indriolo , Thomas R. Geballe , Takeshi Oka , Benjamin J. McCall

We provide a new method to derive heavy element abundances based on the unique suite of nebular lines in the mid- to far-infrared (IR) range. Using grids of photo-ionisation models that cover a wide range in O/H and N/O abundances, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros , E. Pérez-Montero , J. M. Vílchez , R. Amorín , L. Spinoglio

The interstellar medium (ISM) has a multiphase structure characterized by gas, dust and molecules. The gas can be found in different charge states: neutral, low-ionized (warm) and high-ionized (hot). It is possible to probe the multiphase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-19 C. Pinto , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , F. Verbunt

We present a new method for inferring the metallicity (Z) and ionization parameter (q) of HII regions and star-forming galaxies using strong nebular emission lines (SEL). We use Bayesian inference to derive the joint and marginalized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Guillermo A. Blanc , Lisa Kewley , Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Michael A. Dopita

To better characterize the upper end of the galaxy stellar mass range, the MUSE Most Massive Galaxies (M3G) Survey targeted the most massive galaxies (M$>10^{12}$ M$_{\odot}$) found in the densest known clusters of galaxies at $z\sim0.046$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 I. Pagotto , D. Krajnović , M. den Brok , E. Emsellem , J. Brinchmann , P. M. Weilbacher , W. Kollatschny , M. Steinmetz

The distribution of metals within a galaxy traces the baryon cycle and the buildup of galactic disks, but the detailed gas phase metallicity distribution remains poorly sampled. We have determined the gas phase oxygen abundances for 7,138…

For the first time, neon abundance has been derived in the narrow line region from a sample of Seyfert~2 nuclei. In view of this, we compiled from the literature fluxes of optical and infrared (IR) narrow emission lines for 35 Seyfert 2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 Mark Armah , O. L. Dors , C. P. Aydar , M. V. Cardaci , G. F. Hagele , Anna Feltre , R. Riffel , R. A. Riffel , A. C. Krabbe

We present an extensive analysis of the gas-phase abundances and depletion behaviors of neutron-capture elements in the interstellar medium (ISM). Column densities (or upper limits to the column densities) of Ga II, Ge II, As II, Kr I, Cd…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-07 Adam M. Ritchey , Steven R. Federman , David L. Lambert

The interstellar abundances of D I, N I, and O I in the local ISM are studied us ing high-resolution spectra of four hot white dwarfs. The spectra of GD 246, WD 2331$-$475, HZ 21, and Lan 23 were obtained with the {\it Far Ultraviolet…

The spatial distribution of metals reflects, and can be used to constrain, the processes of chemical enrichment and mixing. Using PHANGS-MUSE optical integral field spectroscopy, we measure the gas phase oxygen abundances (metallicities)…

The purpose of this work is to make available new gas-phase oxygen abundance measurements for a serendipitous sample of 27 galaxies with redshift 0.35<z<0.52. We measured the equivalent widths of the [O II]{\lambda}3727, H{\beta}, and [O…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Morelli , V. Calvi , A. Cardullo , A. Pizzella , E. M. Corsini , E. Dalla Bontà

The carbon to oxygen (C/O) abundance ratio is a valuable tracer of star formation history, as C and O enrichment occurs on different timescales. However, measurements based on ultraviolet (UV) collisionally excited lines and those based on…

We study the ionized gas spectrum of star forming regions in the Holmberg II galaxy using the optical long-slit spectroscopic observations made at the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-24 O. V. Egorov , T. A. Lozinskaya , A. V. Moiseev

Using archival Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data, we have assembled a survey of eight sightlines through high-velocity cloud Complex C. Abundances of the observed ion species vary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux

The derivation of sulphur chemical abundances in the gas-phase of star-forming galaxies is explored in this work, using the emission lines produced in these regions in the optical part of the spectrum and by means of photoionization models.…

The comparison of chemical abundances in the neutral gas of galaxies to photospheric abundances of old and young stars, ionized gas abundances, and abundances in galactic halos can trace the chemical enrichment of the universe through…