The oxygen abundance in the H II regions of the spiral galaxy M101 determined from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra |
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| Authors: | Yu S Sholudchenko I Yu Izotova L S Pilyugin |
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| Institution: | (1) Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, vul. Akademika Zabolotnoho 27, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine;(2) Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, pr. Akademika Glushkova 6, Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine |
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| Abstract: | We examined the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra of the H II regions in the disk of the spiral galaxy M101 (NGC 5457), and 17 H II regions with the auroral oxygen line O III] λ 436.3 nm in their spectra were selected for line intensity measurements. The measurement data were used to determine the oxygen abundance in the H II region sample. We demonstrate that the spectral SDSS data supplemented with the information on the nebular oxygen line O II] λ 372.7 nm based on the recently found ff-relation between the oxygen line intensities in the spectra of H II regions allow the oxygen abundance to be determined as accurately as in the standard T e method. The parameters of the radial oxygen abundance distribution in the M101 disk (the abundance at the galactic center and the radial gradient) are estimated. |
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