Systematic effects and a new determination of the primordial abundance of He-4 and dY/dZ from observations of blue compact galaxies
Oct, 200353 pages
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- Astrophys.J. 602 (2004) 200-230
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- astro-ph/0310421 [astro-ph]
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We use spectroscopic observations of a sample of 82 HII regions in 76 blue compact galaxies to determine the primordial helium abundance Yp and the slope dY/dZ from the Y-O/H linear regression. To improve the accuracy of the dY/dZ measurement, we have included new spectrophotometric observations of 33 HII regions which span a large metallicity range, with oxygen abundance 12+log(O/H) varying between 7.43 and 8.30 (Zsun/30- GALAXIES ABUNDANCES
- GALAXIES IRREGULAR
- GALAXIES ISM
- HII REGIONS
- ISM ABUNDANCES
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