Bibcode
Pilyugin, L. S.; Vílchez, J. M.; Cedrés, B.; Thuan, T. X.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 403, Issue 2, pp. 896-905.
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2010
Citations
22
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21
Description
Spectra of high-metallicity [12+log(O/H) >~ 8.2] HII regions, where
oxygen auroral lines are measurable in both the O+ and
O++ zones, have been extracted from the Data Release 6 of the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our final sample consists of 181 SDSS
spectra of HII regions in galaxies in the redshift range from ~0.025 to
~0.17. The t2,O-t3,O diagram is examined. In the
SDSS HII regions, the electron temperature t2,O is found to
have a large scatter at a given value of the electron temperature
t3,O. The majority of the SDSS HII regions lie below the
t2,O-t3,O relation derived for HII regions in
nearby galaxies, i.e. the positions of the SDSS HII regions show a
systematic shift towards lower t2,O temperatures or/and
towards higher t3,O temperatures. The scatter and shift of
the SDSS HII regions in the t2,O-t3,O diagram can
be understood if they are composite nebulae excited by two or more
ionizing sources of different temperatures.