Two extremely metal-poor emission-line galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Details Two extremely metal-poor emission-line galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Two extremely metal-poor emission-line galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2006-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604234v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10.1051/0004-6361:20065100

We present spectroscopic observations with the 3.6m ESO telescope of two emission-line galaxies, J2104-0035 and J0113+0052, selected from the Data Release 4 (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From our data we determine the oxygen abundance of these systems to be respectively 12+logO/H = 7.26+/-0.03 and 7.17+/-0.09, making them the two most metal-deficient galaxies found thus far in the SDSS and placing them among the five most metal-deficient emission-line galaxies ever discovered. Their oxygen abundances are close to those of the two most metal-deficient emission-line galaxies known, SBS0335-052W with 12+logO/H = 7.12+/-0.03 and I Zw 18 with 12+logO/H = 7.17+/-0.01.

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