Abundance calibration and evolution of giant H II regions

Vilchez, J. M.
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(Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Summer School on Evolutionary Phenomena in Galaxies, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, July 4-15, 1988) Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 157, no. 1-2, July 1989, p. 61-64.

Fecha de publicación:
7
1989
Número de autores
1
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0
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6
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6
Descripción
This paper presents a self-consistent method to determine abundance and evolutionary status for giant H II regions (GHR) as well as the nominal temperature of the ionizing cluster and the ionization parameter. This new method makes it possible to recalibrate the empirical relationship (R23, O/H) by Pagel et al (1979) up to abundances three times solar. The effects of evolution of GHR on their observed spectra are explained in terms of the cooling down of the ionizing population, and some evolutionary tracks are presented.