Galactic Evolution of Nitrogen

Details Galactic Evolution of Nitrogen Galactic Evolution of Nitrogen

2004-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405049v1

Astron.Astrophys. 421 (2004) 649-658

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20047132

We present detailed spectroscopic analysis of nitrogen abundances in 31 unevolved metal-poor stars analysed by spectral synthesis of the near-UV NH band at 3360 A observed at high resolution with various telescopes. We found that [N/Fe] scales with that of iron in the metallicity range -3.1 < [Fe/H] <0 with the slope 0.01+-0.02. Furthermore, we derive uniform and accurate (N/O) ratios using oxygen abundances from near-UV OH lines obtained in our previous studies. We find that a primary component of nitrogen is required to explain the observations. The NH lines are discovered in the VLT/UVES spectra of the very metal-poor subdwarfs G64-12 and LP815-43 indicating that these stars are N rich. The results are compared with theoretical models and observations of extragalactic HII regions and Damped Ly$\alpha$ systems. This is the first direct comparison of the (N/O) ratios in these objects with those in Galactic stars.

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