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Dec 1996
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American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #84.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1388
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We have obtained new measurements of the C/O abundance ratio in both the NW and SE H II regions in the extreme dwarf H II galaxy I Zw 18, based on UV/optical spectroscopy with the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. From analysis of the emission lines, we have determined values of log C/O = -0.63+/-0.10 for the NW region and log C/O = -0.56+/-0.09 for the SE region. In comparison, log C/O = -0.85+/-0.07 in the three most metal-poor H II galaxies measured previously by Garnett et al. (1995, ApJ, 443, 64). The average value of log C/O = -0.60+/-0.09 in I Zw 18 is significantly higher than in other comparably metal-poor galaxies. This result and the fact that both components have very similar abundances argue against the H II region self-pollution hypothesis of Kunth & Sargent (1986, ApJ, 300, 496). Instead, comparison with chemical evolution models for starbursting dwarf galaxies suggest that the current abundances in I Zw 18 reflect the nucleosynthesis products from a star formation event that occurred several hundred Myr ago.
Dufour Reginald James
Garnett Don R.
Shields Gregory A.
Skillman Evan D.
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