The electron temperatures of SDSS high-metallicity giant extragalactic HII regions

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2009-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/0912.2596v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

14 pages, 11 figures accepted for publication in the MNRAS

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Spectra of high-metallicity (12+log(O/H) > 8.2) HII regions where oxygen auroral lines are measurable in both the O+ and O++ zones, have been extracted from the Data Release 6 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our final sample consists of 181 SDSS spectra of HII regions in galaxies in the redshift range from ~0.025 to ~0.17. The t_2,O-t_3,O diagram is examined. In the SDSS HII regions, the electron temperature t_2,O is found to have a large scatter at a given value of the electron temperature t_3,O. The majority of the SDSS HII regions lie below the t_2,O-t_3,O relation derived for HII regions in nearby galaxies, i.e. the positions of the SDSS HII regions show a systematic shift towards lower t_2,O temperatures or/and towards higher t_3,O temperatures. The scatter and shift of the SDSS HII regions in the t_2,O-t_3,O diagram can be understood if they are composite nebulae excited by two or more ionizing sources of different temperatures.

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