A comprehensive study of reported high metallicity giant HII regions. I. Detailed abundance analysis

Details A comprehensive study of reported high metallicity giant HII regions. I. Detailed abundance analysis A comprehensive study of reported high metallicity giant HII regions. I. Detailed abundance analysis

2001-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109115v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 329 (2002) 315

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.04987.x

We present long-slit observations in the optical and near infrared of fourteen HII regions in the spiral galaxies: NGC 628, NGC 925, NGC 1232 and NGC 1637, all of them reported to have solar or oversolar abundances according to empirical calibrations. For seven of the observed regions, ion-weighted temperatures from optical forbidden auroral to nebular line ratios have been obtained and for six of them, the oxygen abundances derived by standard methods turn out to be significantly lower than solar. The other one, named CDT1 in NGC 1232, shows an oxygen abundance of 12+log(O/H) = 8.95+-0.20 and constitutes, to the best of our knowledge, the first high metallicity HII region for which accurate line temperatures, and hence elemental abundances, have been derived. For the rest of the regions no line temperature measurements could be made and the metallicity has been determined by means of both detailed photoionisation modelling and the sulphur abundance parameter S_23. Only one of these regions shows values of O_23 and S_23 implying a solar or oversolar metallicity. According to our analysis, only two of the observed regions can therefore be considered as of high metallicity. The two of them fit the trends previously found in other high metallicity HII regions, i.e. N/O and S/O abundance ratios seem to be higher and lower than solar respectively.

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