Si/O Abundance Ratios in Extragalactic H II Regions from Hubble Space Telescope UV Spectroscopy

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Aug 1995

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Astrophysical Journal Letters v.449, p.L77

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

45

Ism: H Ii Regions, Ism: Abundances

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We have measured the Si III] intercombination doublet at 1883 A and 1892 A in seven extragalactic H II regions using the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. These measurements were used to derive the Si/C and Si/O gas phase abundance ratios in the ionized gas. We find that Si/O shows no systematic variation with O/H over the range -4.8 < log O/H < -3.4. The weighted mean value for Si/O over this range is log Si/O = -1.59 +/- 0.07. For comparison, the solar value is log Si/O = -1.37, while for Galactic B stars and supergiants -1.6 < log Si/O < -1.2. Uncertainty in the stellar reference value for Si/O prevents a straightforward interpretation of our Si/O ratios. However, if the solar Si/O ratio represents the intrinsic cosmic ratio, our results imply that, on average, only about 50% of the total abundance of silicon in these H II regions is incorporated into dust grains, a value significantly smaller than is typically measured in dense interstellar clouds. Our results suggest that some grain modification is occurring within the H II region environment.

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