- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/546/A6
- Title:
- Metal abundances of galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/546/A6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work measures the evolution of the iron content in galaxy clusters by a rigorous analysis of the data of 130 clusters at 0.1<z<1.3. This task is made difficult by a) the low signal-to-noise ratio of abundance measurements and the upper limits, b) possible selection effects, c) boundaries in the parameter space, d) non-Gaussian errors, e) the intrinsic variety of the objects studied, and f) abundance systematics. We introduce a Bayesian model to address all these issues at the same time, thus allowing cross-talk (covariance).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/150/71
- Title:
- Metal abundances of KISS galaxies. V.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/150/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present high signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopy of 15 emission-line galaxies cataloged in the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey, selected for their possession of high equivalent width [OIII] lines. The primary goal of this study was to attempt to derive direct-method (T_e_) abundances for use in constraining the upper-metallicity branch of the R_23_ relation. The spectra cover the full optical region from [OII]{lambda}{lambda}3726,3729 to [SIII]{lambda}{lambda}9069,9531 and include the measurement of [OIII]{lambda}4363 in 13 objects. From these spectra, we determine abundance ratios of helium, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, sulfur, and argon. We find these galaxies to predominantly possess oxygen abundances in the range of 8.0<~12+log(O/H)<~8.3. We present a comparison of direct-method abundances with empirical strong-emission-line techniques, revealing several discrepancies. We also present a comparison of direct-method oxygen abundance calculations using electron temperatures determined from emission lines of O^++^ and S^++^, finding a small systematic shift to lower T_e_(~1184K) and higher metallicity (~0.14dex) for sulfur-derived T_e_ compared to oxygen-derived T_e_. Finally, we explore in some detail the different spectral activity types of targets in our sample, including regular star-forming galaxies, those with suspected AGN contamination, and a local pair of low-metallicity, high-luminosity compact objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/549/A110
- Title:
- Metal abundances of sdB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/549/A110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) are considered to be core helium-burning stars with very thin hydrogen envelopes situated on or near the extreme horizontal branch (EHB). The formation of sdBs is still unclear as well as the chemical composition of their atmospheres. The observed helium depletion is attributed to atmospheric diffusion. Metal abundances have been determined for about a dozen sdBs only resulting in puzzling patterns with enrichment of heavy metals and depletion of lighter ones. In this paper we present a detailed metal abundance analysis of 106 sdBs. From high resolution spectra we measured elemental abundances of up to 24 different ions per star. A semi-automatic analysis pipeline was developed to calculate and fit LTE models to a standard set of spectral lines. A general trend of enrichment was found with increasing temperature for most of the heavier elements. The lighter elements like carbon, oxygen and nitrogen are depleted and less affected by temperature. Although there is considerable scatter from star to star, the general abundance patterns in most sdBs are similar. State-of-the-art diffusion models predict such patterns and are in qualitative agreement with our results. However, the highest enrichments measured cannot not be explained with these models. Peculiar line shapes of the strongest metal lines in some stars indicate vertical stratification to be present in the atmospheres. Such effects are not accounted for in current diffusion models and may be responsible for some of the yet unexplained abundance anomalies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/871/151
- Title:
- METAL Hubble program. I. Initial results
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/871/151
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud (METAL) is a large cycle 24 program on the Hubble Space Telescope aimed at measuring dust extinction properties and interstellar depletions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) at half-solar metallicity. The 101-orbit program is composed of Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) spectroscopy toward 33 LMC massive stars between 1150 and 3180{AA} and parallel Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging in seven near-UV to near-IR filters. The fraction of silicon in the gas phase (depletion) obtained from the spectroscopy decreases with increasing hydrogen column density. Depletion patterns for silicon differ between the Milky Way, LMC, and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), with the silicon depletion level offsetting almost exactly the metallicity differences, leading to constant gas-phase abundances in those galaxies for a given hydrogen column density. The silicon depletion correlates linearly with the absolute-to-selective extinction, RV, indicating a link between gas depletion and dust grain size. Extinction maps are derived from the resolved stellar photometry in the parallel imaging, which can be compared to far-IR images from Herschel and Spitzer to estimate the emissivity of dust at LMC metallicity. The full METAL sample of depletions, UV extinction curves, and extinction maps will inform the abundance, size, composition, and optical properties of dust grains in the LMC, comprehensively improve our understanding of dust properties, and improve the accuracy with which dust-based gas masses, star formation rates, and star formation histories in nearby and high-redshift galaxies are estimated. This overview paper describes the goals, design, data reduction, and initial results of the METAL survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/485/571
- Title:
- Metallicities & activities of southern stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/485/571
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results from high-resolution spectroscopic measurements to determine metallicities and activities of bright stars in the southern hemisphere.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/588/A98
- Title:
- Metallicities and abundances of evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/588/A98
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detailed chemical abundance studies have revealed different trends between samples of planet and non-planet hosts. Whether these trends are related to the presence of planets or not is strongly debated. At the same time, tentative evidence that the properties of evolved stars with planets may be different from what we know for main-sequence hosts has been recently reported. We aim to test whether evolved stars with planets show any chemical peculiarity that could be related to the planet formation process. We determine in a consistent way the metallicity and individual abundances of a large sample of evolved (subgiants and red giants) and main-sequence stars with and without known planetary companions, and discuss their metallicity distribution and trends. Our methodology is based on the analysis of high-resolution echelle spectra (R ~ 57000) from 2-3 m class telescopes. It includes the calculation of the fundamental stellar parameters, as well as, individual abundances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/270
- Title:
- Metallicities and ages in Leo II dSph
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/270
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present metallicities and ages for 52 red giants in the remote Galactic dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo II. These stars cover the entire surface area of Leo II and are radial velocity members. We obtained medium-resolution multifiber spectroscopy with FLAMES as part of a Large Program with the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, Chile. The metallicities were determined based on the well-established near-infrared Ca II triplet technique.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/3042
- Title:
- Metallicities in the Geneva photometric system
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/3042
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the most homogeneous Geneva seven-colour photometric system to derive new metallicity calibrations for early A- to K-type stars that cover both, dwarf stars and giants. The calibrations are based on several spectroscopic data sets that were merged to a common scale, and we applied them to open cluster data to obtain an additional proof of the metallicity scale and accuracy. In total, metallicities of 54 open clusters are presented. The accuracy of the calibrations for single stars is in general below 0.1dex, but for the open cluster sample with mean values based on several stars we find a much better precision, a scatter as low as about 0.03dex. Furthermore, we combine the new results with another comprehensive photometric data set to present a catalogue of mean metallicities for more than 3000 F- and G-type dwarf stars with sigma about 0.06dex. The list was extended by more than 1200 hotter stars up to about 8500K (or spectral type A3) by taking advantage of their almost reddening free characteristic in the new Geneva metallicity calibrations. These two large samples are well suited as primary or secondary calibrators of other data, and we already identified about 20 spectroscopic data sets that show offsets up to about 0.4dex.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/755/89
- Title:
- Metallicities of damped Ly{alpha} systems
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/755/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present chemical abundance measurements for 47 damped Ly{alpha} (DLA) systems, 30 at z>4, observed with the Echellette Spectrograph and Imager and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck telescopes. H I column densities of the DLAs are measured with Voigt profile fits to the Ly{alpha} profiles, and we find an increased number of false DLA identifications with Sloan Digital Sky Survey at z>4 due to the increased density of the Ly{alpha} forest. Ionic column densities are determined using the apparent optical depth method, and we combine our new metallicity measurements with 195 from previous surveys to determine the evolution of the cosmic metallicity of neutral gas. We find the metallicity of DLAs decreases with increasing redshift, improving the significance of the trend and extending it to higher redshifts, with a linear fit of -0.22+/-0.03 dex per unit redshift from z=0.09-5.06. The metallicity "floor" of {approx}1/600 solar continues out to z~5, despite our sensitivity for finding DLAs with much lower metallicities. However, this floor is not statistically different from a steep tail to the distribution. We also find that the intrinsic scatter of metallicity among DLAs of ~0.5dex continues out to z~5. In addition, the metallicity distribution and the {alpha}/Fe ratios of z>2 DLAs are consistent with being drawn from the same parent population with those of halo stars. It is therefore possible that the halo stars in the Milky Way formed out of gas that commonly exhibits DLA absorption at z>2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/808/187
- Title:
- Metallicities of KIC stars without planets
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/808/187
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Host star metallicities have been used to infer observational constraints on planet formation throughout the history of the exoplanet field. The giant planet metallicity correlation has now been widely accepted, but questions remain as to whether the metallicity correlation extends to the small terrestrial-sized planets. Here, we report metallicities for a sample of 518 stars in the Kepler field that have no detected transiting planets and compare their metallicity distribution to a sample of stars that hosts small planets (Rp<1.7R_{Earth}_). Importantly, both samples have been analyzed in a homogeneous manner using the same set of tools (Stellar Parameters Classification tool). We find the average metallicity of the sample of stars without detected transiting planets to be [m/H]_SNTP,dwarf_=-0.02+/-0.02dex and the sample of stars hosting small planets to be [m/H]_STP_=-0.02+/-0.02dex. The average metallicities of the two samples are indistinguishable within the uncertainties, and the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test yields a p-value of 0.68 (0.41{sigma}), indicating a failure to reject the null hypothesis that the two samples are drawn from the same parent population. We conclude that the homogeneous analysis of the data presented here supports the hypothesis that stars hosting small planets have a metallicity similar to stars with no known transiting planets in the same area of the sky.
