Thursday, June 28, 2012

1206.6300 (L. Morelli et al.)

Gas-phase metallicity of 27 galaxies at intermediate redshift    [PDF]

L. Morelli, V. Calvi, A. Cardullo, A. Pizzella, E. M. Corsini, E. Dalla Bontà
The purpose of this work is to make available new gas-phase oxygen abundance measurements for a serendipitous sample of 27 galaxies with redshift 0.35\leqz\leq0.52. We measured the equivalent widths of the [O II]{\lambda}3727, H{\beta}, and [O III]{\lambda}{\lambda}4959, 5007 emission lines observed in the galaxy spectra obtained with the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph mounted at the Very Large Telescope. For each galaxy, we derived the metallicity-sensitive emission lines ratio R23, ionization-sensitive emission lines ratio O32, and gas-phase oxygen abundance 12+log(O/H). The values of gas-phase oxygen abundance 12+log(O/H) we obtained for the sample galaxies are consistent with previous findings for galaxies at intermediate redshift.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6300

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