FUSE observations of the HI interstellar gas of IZw18

Details FUSE observations of the HI interstellar gas of IZw18 FUSE observations of the HI interstellar gas of IZw18

2003-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309766v1

Astron.Astrophys.413:131-138,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031518

We present the analysis of FUSE observations of the metal-deficient dwarf galaxy IZw18. We measured column densities of HI, NI, OI, ArI, SiII, and FeII. The OI/HI ratio (log(OI/HI)=-4.7^{+0.8}_{-0.6}) is consistent with the O/H ratio observed in the HII regions (all uncertainties are 2-sigma). If the oxygen is depleted in the HI region compared to the HII regions, the depletion is at most 0.5dex. This is also consistent with the log(O/H) ratios ~-5 measured with FUSE in the HI regions of other blue compact dwarf galaxies. With log(NI/OI)=-2.4^{+0.6}_{-0.8}, the measured NI/OI ratio is lower than expected for primary nitrogen. The determination of the NII column density is needed to discriminate between a large ionization of NI or a possible nitrogen deficiency. The neutral argon is also apparently underabundant, indicating that ionization into ArII is likely important. The column densities of the other alpha-chain elements SiII and ArI favor the lower edge of the permitted range of OI column density, log(N(OI))~16.3.

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