Description
We use a large sample of 174 Wolf-Rayet (W-R) galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to study whether and how the slope of the stellar initial mass function depends on metallicity. We calculate for each object its oxygen abundance, according to which we divide our sample into four metallicity subsamples. For each subsample, we then measure three quantities: the equivalent width of the H{beta} emission line, the equivalent width of the W-R bump around 4650{AA}, and the W-R bump-to-Hbeta intensity ratio, and compare to the predictions of the same quantities by evolutionary synthesis models of Schaerer & Vacca (1998ApJ...497..618S).
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