Oxygen abundance in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Details Oxygen abundance in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Oxygen abundance in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2006-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603255v1

Astron.Astrophys.453:487-492,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures. A&A accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20054524

We present two samples of $\hii$ galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic observations data release 3. The electron temperatures($T_e$) of 225 galaxies are calculated with the photoionized $\hii$ model and $T_e$ of 3997 galaxies are calculated with an empirical method. The oxygen abundances from the $T_e$ methods of the two samples are determined reliably. The oxygen abundances from a strong line metallicity indicator, such as $R_{23}$, $P$, $N2$, and $O3N2$, are also calculated. We compared oxygen abundances of $\hii$ galaxies obtained with the $T_e$ method, $R_{23}$ method, $P$ method, $N2$ method, and $O3N2$method. The oxygen abundances derived with the $T_e$ method are systematically lower by $\sim$0.2 dex than those derived with the $R_{23}$ method, consistent with previous studies based on $\hii$ region samples. No clear offset for oxygen abundance was found between $T_e$ metallicity and $P$, $N2$ and $O3N2$ metallicity. When we studied the relation between N/O and O/H, we found that in the metallicity regime of $\zoh > 7.95$, the large scatter of the relation can be explained by the contribution of small mass stars to the production of nitrogen. In the high metallicity regime, $\zoh > 8.2$, nitrogen is primarily a secondary element produced by stars of all masses.

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