Analyzing derived metallicities and ionization parameters from model-based determinations in ionized gaseous nebulae

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2011-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/1104.5460v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

12 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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We analyze the reliability of oxygen abundances and ionization parameters obtained from different diagnostic diagrams. For this, we compiled from the literature observational emission line intensities and oxygen abundance of 446 star-forming regions whose O/H abundance was determined by direct estimation of electron temperature. The abundances compiled were compared with the values calculated in this work using different diagnostic diagrams in combination with results from a grid of photoionization models. We found that the [\ion{O}{iii}]/[\ion{O}{ii}] vs. [\ion{N}{ii}]/[\ion{O}{ii}], [\ion{O}{iii}]/H$\beta$ vs. [\ion{N}{ii}]/[\ion{O}{ii}], and ([\ion{O}{iii}]/H$\beta$)/([\ion{N}{ii}]/H$\alpha$) vs. [\ion{S}{ii}]/[\ion{S}{iii}] diagnostic diagrams give O/H values close to the $T_{\rm e}$-method, with differences of about 0.04 dex and dispersion of about 0.3 dex. Similar results were obtained by detailed models but with a dispersion of 0.08 dex. The origin of the dispersion found in the use of diagnostic diagrams is probably due to differences between the real N/O-O/H relation of the sample and the one assumed in the models. This is confirmed by the use of detailed models that do not have a fixed N/O-O/H relation. We found no correlation between ionization parameter and the metallicity for the objects of our sample. We conclude that the combination of two line ratio predicted by photoionization models, one sensitive to the metallicity and another sensitive to the ionization parameter, which takes into account the physical conditions of star-forming regions, gives O/H estimates close to the values derived using direct detections of electron temperatures.

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