Bibcode
Ruiz-Escobedo, F.; Peña, M.; Hernández-Martínez, L.; García-Rojas, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 481, Issue 1, p.396-404
Fecha de publicación:
11
2018
Número de citas
6
Número de citas referidas
5
Descripción
We present chemical abundance determinations of two H II regions in the
dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxy Leo A from Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy
(OSIRIS) long-slit spectra. Both H II regions are of low excitation and
seem to be ionized by stars later than O8V spectral type. In one of the
H II regions we used the direct method: O+2 ionic abundance
was calculated using an electronic temperature determined from the [O
III] λλ4363/5007 line ratio; ionic abundances of
O+, N+, and S+ were calculated using a
temperature derived from a parametrized formula. O, N, and S total
abundances were calculated using ionization correction factors from the
literature for each element. Chemical abundances using strong-line
methods were also determined, with similar results. For the second H II
region, no electron temperature was determined thus the direct method
cannot be used. We computed photoionization structure models for both H
II regions in order to determine their chemical composition from the
best-fitting models. It is confirmed that Leo A in a very low
metallicity galaxy, with 12 + log(O/H) = 7.4 ± 0.2, log(N/O) =
-1.6, and log(S/O) = -1.1. Emission lines of the only planetary nebula
(PN) detected in Leo A were re-analysed and a photoionization model was
computed. This PN shows 12 + log(O/H) very similar to the ones of the H
II regions and a low N abundance, although its log(N/O) ratio is much
larger than the values of the H II regions. Its central star seems to
have had an initial mass lower than 2 M⊙.
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