Chemical abundances in high-redshift galaxies: a powerful new emission line diagnostic

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• 作者：Michael A. Dopita ; Lisa J. Kewley ; Ralph S. Sutherland…
• 关键词：Galaxies ; high redshift ; Galaxies ; chemical abundances ; HII regions ; Emission lines
• 刊名：Astrophysics and Space Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：361
• 期：2
• 全文大小：856 KB
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• 作者单位：Michael A. Dopita (1) (2)
  Lisa J. Kewley (1) (3)
  Ralph S. Sutherland (3)
  David C. Nicholls (1)
  
  1. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd., Weston ACT 2611, Canberra, Australia
  2. Astronomy Department, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  3. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Astronomy
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-946X

文摘

This Letter presents a new, remarkably simple diagnostic specifically designed to derive chemical abundances for high redshift galaxies. It uses only the \(\mathrm{H}\alpha\), [N ii] and [S ii] emission lines, which can usually be observed in a single grating setting, and is almost linear up to an abundance of \(12+\log (\mathrm{O}/\mathrm{H}) = 9.05\). It can be used over the full abundance range encountered in high redshift galaxies. By its use of emission lines located close together in wavelength, it is also independent of reddening. Our diagnostic depends critically on the calibration of the N/O ratio. However, by using realistic stellar atmospheres combined with the N/O vs. O/H abundance calibration derived locally from stars and H ii regions, and allowing for the fact that high-redshift H ii regions have both high ionisation parameters and high gas pressures, we find that the observations of high-redshift galaxies can be simply explained by the models without having to invoke arbitrary changes in N/O ratio, or the presence of unusual quantities of Wolf-Rayet stars in these galaxies.