HST observations of carbon in spiral galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Garnett D.R.
  2. Shields G.A.
  3. Peimbert M.
  4. Torres-Peimbert S.
  5. SkillmanE.D.
  6. Dufour R.J.
  7. Terlevich E.
  8. Terlevich R.J.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present measurements of the gas-phase abundance ratio C/O in six H II regions in the spiral galaxies M101 and NGC 2403, based on ultraviolet spectroscopy using the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. The ratios of C to O increase systematically with O/H in both galaxies, from log(C/O){~=}-0.8 at log(O/H){~=}-4.0 to log(C/O){~=}-0.1 at log(O/H){~=}-3.4. C/N shows no correlation with O/H. The rate of increase of C/O is somewhat uncertain because of uncertainty as to the appropriate UV reddening law and uncertainty in the metallicity dependence on grain depletions. However, the trend of increasing C/O with O/H is clear, confirming and extending the trend in C/O indicated previously from observations of irregular galaxies. Our data indicate that the radial gradients in C/H across spiral galaxies are steeper than the gradients in O/H. Comparing the data to chemical-evolution models for spiral galaxies shows that models in which the massive star yields do not vary with metallicity predict radial C/O gradients that are much flatter than the observed gradients.

Keywords
  1. chemical-abundances
  2. galaxies
  3. spectroscopy
  4. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1999ApJ...513..168G
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.15130168

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2000-03-16T08:55:40Z
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