Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-04-29
Astrophys.J.665:1115-1128,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
28 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/519922
We present 6.5-meter MMT spectrophotometry of 20 H II regions in 13 extremely metal-poor emission-line galaxies selected from the Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to have [O III] 4959/Hbeta < 1 and [N II] 6583/Hbeta < 0.05. The electron temperature-sensitive emission line [O III] 4363 is detected in 13 H II regions allowing a direct abundance determination. The oxygen abundance in the remaining H II regions is derived using a semi-empirical method. The oxygen abundance of the galaxies in our sample ranges from 12+logO/H ~ 7.1 to ~ 7.8, with 10 H II regions having an oxygen abundance lower than 7.5. The lowest oxygen abundances, 12+logO/H = 7.14+/-0.03 and 7.13+/-0.07, are found in two H II regions of the blue compact dwarf galaxy SDSSJ0956+2849=DDO 68, making it the second most-metal deficient emission-line galaxy known, after SBS 0335-052W.
Izotov Yu. I.
Thuan Trinh Xuan
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