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We discuss the chemical properties of a sample of UV-selected intermediate-redshift (0 < z < 0.4) galaxies in the context of their physical nature and star formation history. This work represents an extension of our previous studies (Treyer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Contini , M. A. Treyer , M. Sullivan , R. S. Ellis

We report the oxygen abundances of the HII regions of a sample of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. We provide analytic functions describing the McGaugh (1991) calibration of the R_23 method. We use this and the equivalent width (EW)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rachel Kuzio de Naray , Stacy S. McGaugh , W. J. G. de Blok

(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

We present spectra obtained with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias telescope of 13 Galactic HII regions, most of them of very low ionisation degree. The objects are located along the Galactic disc, with R_G from 5.7 to 16.1 kpc. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 C. Esteban , J. Garcia-Rojas

We present MMT spectroscopic observations of HII regions in 42 low luminosity galaxies in the LVL. For 31 galaxies, we measured the temperature sensitive [O III] line at a strength of 4 sigma or greater, and thus determine direct oxygen…

We have derived the oxygen abundance for a sample of nearby galaxies in the Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) which possess at least two independent spectra of one or several HII regions with a detected [OIII]4363…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. S. Pilyugin , T. X. Thuan

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

Long-slit spectroscopy has been obtained for a sample of 22 blue dwarf galaxies selected in the direction of the Virgo Cluster as part of a larger sample of Virgo blue dwarf galaxies for which deep Halpha imaging has been collected. Most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Vilchez , J. Iglesias-Paramo

This paper presents a spectroscopic investigation of 11 HII regions in the nearby galaxy NGC 2403. The HII regions are observed with a long-slit spectrograph mounted on the 2.16 m telescope at XingLong station of National Astronomical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Ye-Wei Mao , Lin Lin , Xu Kong

We present high S/N spectroscopy of 15 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) cataloged in the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS), selected for their possession of high equivalent width [O III] lines. The primary goal of this study was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Alec S. Hirschauer , John J. Salzer , Fabio Bresolin , Ivo Saviane , Irina Yegorova

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

In this work, we investigated the nitrogen and oxygen abundances in a sample of galaxies with Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Regions (LINERs) in their nucleus. Optical spectroscopic data (3 600 - 10 000 {\AA}) of 40 LINERs from the Mapping…

Using a large sample of 38,478 star-forming galaxies selected from the Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database (SDSS-DR2), we derive analytical calibrations for oxygen abundances from several metallicity-sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. C. Liang , S. Y. Yin , F. Hammer , L. C. Deng , H. Flores , B. Zhang

We present elemental abundances for multiple HII regions in Leo A and GR 8 obtained from long slit optical spectroscopy of these two nearby low luminosity dwarf irregular galaxies. As expected from their luminosities, and in agreement with…

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

First results from a study into the abundance trends of oxygen in the Galactic thin and thick disks are presented. Oxygen abundances for 63 nearby F and G dwarf stars, based on very high resolution spectra ($R\sim215 000$) and high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing , I. Lundström

A detailed spectroscopic study, from lambda 3700 A to 1 um, was performed for a sample of 34 HII galaxies in order to derive fundamental parameters for their HII regions and ionizing sources, as well as gaseous metal abundances. All the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Kehrig , J. M. Vilchez , E. Telles , F. Cuisinier , E. Perez-Montero

We present a Keck/MOSFIRE, rest-optical, composite spectrum of 16 typical, gravitationally-lensed, star-forming, dwarf galaxies at $1.7 \lesssim z \lesssim 2.6$ ($z_{\rm{mean}}=2.30$), all chosen independent of emission-line strength. These…

We determine the radial abundance distributions across the disks of fourteen irregular galaxies of the types Sm and Im (morphological T types T = 9 and T =10) as traced by their HII regions. The oxygen and nitrogen abundances in HII regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-05 L. S. Pilyugin , E. K. Grebel , I. A. Zinchenko

The goal of this study is to measure parameters of the integrated HI emission for twenty-two dwarf galaxies with oxygen abundance 12+log(O/H) in the range of 7.42 to 7.65, which are representatives of the eXtremely Metal-Deficient (XMD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Pustilnik , J. -M. Martin

We present deep echelle spectrophotometry of the brightest emission-line knots of the star-forming galaxies He 2-10, Mkn 1271, NGC 3125, NGC 5408, POX 4, SDSS J1253-0312, Tol 1457-262, Tol 1924-416 and the HII region Hubble V in the Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Esteban , J. García-Rojas , L. Carigi , M. Peimbert , F. Bresolin , A. R. López-Sánchez , A. Mesa-Delgado