| Issue |
A&A
Volume 544, August 2012
|
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | A74 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219316 | |
| Published online | 31 July 2012 | |
Research Note
Gas-phase metallicity of 27 galaxies at intermediate redshift⋆,⋆⋆
1
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei"Università di
Padova,
vicolo dell’Osservatorio 3,
35122
Padova,
Italy
e-mail: lorenzo.morelli@unipd.it
2
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, vicolo
dell’Osservatorio 2, 35122
Padova,
Italy
3
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD
21218,
USA
Received: 30 March 2012
Accepted: 22 June 2012
Aims. The purpose of this work is to make available new gas-phase oxygen abundance measurements for a serendipitous sample of 27 galaxies with redshifts 0.35 ≤ z ≤ 0.52.
Methods. We measured the equivalent widths of the [O ii]λ3727, Hβ, and [O iii]λλ4959,5007 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-line ratio R23, ionization-sensitive emission-line ratio O32, and gas-phase oxygen abundance 12 + log (O/H).
Results. The values of the gas-phase oxygen abundance 12 + log (O/H) that we obtained for all the sample galaxies are consistent with previous findings for galaxies at intermediate redshift.
Key words: galaxies: distances and redshifts / galaxies: evolution / galaxies: formation / galaxies: fundamental parameters / galaxies: ISM
Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla-Paranal Observatory under programmes 075.B-0794 and 077.B-0767.
Tables 1 and 3 are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
© ESO, 2012
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