Metallicity determination in gas-rich galaxies with semiempirical methods

Details Metallicity determination in gas-rich galaxies with semiempirical methods Metallicity determination in gas-rich galaxies with semiempirical methods

2008-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1041v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 9 figures and 2 tables. To appear at AJ, January 2009

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-6256/137/1/169

A study of the precision of the semiempirical methods used in the determination of the chemical abundances in gas-rich galaxies is carried out. In order to do this the oxygen abundances of a total of 438 galaxies were determined using the electronic temperature, the $R_{23}$ and the P methods. The new calibration of the P method gives the smaller dispersion for the low and high metallicity regions, while the best numbers in the turnaround region are given by the $R_{23}$ method. We also found that the dispersion correlates with the metallicity. Finally, it can be said that all the semiempirical methods studied here are quite insensitive to metallicity with a value of $8.0\pm0.2$ dex for more than 50% of the total sample. \keywords{ISM: abundances; (ISM): H {\sc ii} regions}

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