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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 882, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab33fd
关键词
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: ISM
资金
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) [CE170100013]
- Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship
We report J-band MOSFIRE spectroscopy of a low-mass (log (M-*/M-circle dot) = 8.62(-0.06)(+0.10)) star-forming galaxy at z = 0.997 showing the detection of [N II] and [S II] alongside a strong Ha line. We derive a gas-phase metallicity of log(O/H) = 7.99(-0.23)(+0.13) placing this object in a region of M-*-Z space that is sparsely populated at this redshift. Furthermore, many existing metallicity measurements in this M-*-z regime are derived from only [N II/H alpha (N2), a diagnostic widely used in high-redshift metallicity studies despite the known strong degeneracy with the ionization parameter and resulting large systematic uncertainty. We demonstrate that even in a regime where [N II] and [S II] are at the detection limit and the measurement uncertainty associated with the [N II ] ratio is high (S/N approximate to 3), the more sophisticated Dopita et al. diagnostic provides an improved constraint compared to N2 by reducing the systematic uncertainty due to the ionization parameter. This approach does not, however, dispel uncertainty associated with stochastic or systematic variations in the nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratio. While this approach improves upon N2, future progress in extending metallicity studies into this low-mass regime will require larger samples to allow for stochastic variations, as well as careful consideration of the global trends among dwarf galaxies in all physical parameters, not just metallicity.
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