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PP 018098

Chemistry in the dIrr galaxy Leo A

F. Ruiz-Escobedo (1), M. Peña (1), L. Hernández-Martínez (2), J. García-Rojas (3,4)
(1) Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Mexico, (2) Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico, (3) IAC, Spain, (4) Dep. Astrofisica, ULL, Spain
We present chemical abundance determinations of two H II regions in the dIrr galaxy Leo A, from GTC OSIRIS long-slit spectra. Both H II regions are of low excitation and seem to be ionised 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 parameterised formula. O, N and S total abundances were calculated using Ionisation 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 photoionisation structure models for both H II regions in order to determine their chemical composition from the best-fitted 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 PN detected in Leo A were reanalysed and a photoionisation 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⊙

 
Aceptado para publicación en MNRAS | Enviado el 2018-08-21 | Proyecto P/308614