Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-02-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, A&A in press
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20010277
The study of group properties of the extremely metal-deficient gas-rich local dwarfs is very promising for the understanding the galaxy formation process at high redshifts. About 20 such objects have been picked up from the literature in the recent review by Kunth & Ostlin(2000). However part of these galaxies got low metallicity as a result of earlier observations, and can have rather large uncertainties in their cited element abundances. Before to perform the detailed studies of such galaxies as of some extreme group, it is useful to revise their metallicities. We present the results of the SAO 6m telescope spectrophotometry of two Blue Compact Galaxies (BCG) reported from earlier studies as very metal-poor objects. Well measured [O III] line 4363 A allows to deduce the temperature in HII regions and get reliable abundances of chemical elements. For UM 133 we derive 12+log(O/H) = 7.63+/-0.02, coincident with the published value. UM 382, according to our data, is significantly more metal-rich: its 12+log(O/H) = 7.82+/-0.03 in comparison to the published value 7.45. The third galaxy, UM 283 seems have got its very low 12+log(O/H) = 7.59 due to a misprint. We used its published emission line intensities and derived instead the value of 7.95. Thus the latter two galaxies should NOT be considered as the extremely metal-poor BCGs.
Kniazev Alexei Y.
Pramsky A. G.
Pustilnik Simon A.
Ugryumov Andrei V.
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