A VLT study of metal-rich extragalactic H II regions. I. Observations and empirical abundances
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In this paper, the authors obtained spectroscopic observations from 3600 Angstrom to 9200 Angstrom with FORS at the Very Large Telescope for approximately 70 H II regions located in the spiral galaxies NGC 1232, NGC 1365, nGC 2903, n GC 2997 and NGC 5236.Abstract:
We have obtained spectroscopic observations from 3600 Angstrom to 9200 Angstrom with FORS at the Very Large Telescope for approximately 70 H II regions located in the spiral galaxies NGC 1232, NGC 1365, NGC 2903, NGC 2997 and NGC 5236. These data are part of a project aiming at measuring the chemical abundances and characterizing the massive stellar content of metal-rich extragalactic H II regions. In this paper we describe our dataset, and present emission line fluxes for the whole sample. In 32 H II regions we measure at least one of the following auroral lines: [S II]4072, [N II]5755, [S III]6312 and [O II]7325. From these we derive electron temperatures, as well as oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur abundances, using classical empirical methods (both so-called "Te-based methods" and "strong line methods"). Under the assumption that the temperature gradient does not introduce severe biases, we find that the most metal-rich nebulae with detected auroral lines are found at 12+log(O/H)~8.9, i.e. about 60% larger than the adopted solar value. However, classical abundance determinations in metal-rich H II regions may be severely biased and must be tested with realistic photoionization models. The spectroscopic observations presented in this paper will serve as a homogeneous and high-quality database for such purpose.read more
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