Ionized-gas Metallicity of the Strong [O iii]λ5007 Emission-line Compact Galaxies in the LAMOST Survey

This article reports a sample of 1830 strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies discovered with the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and the photometric catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We newly identify 402 spectra of 346 strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies by findi...

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Main Authors: Siqi Liu, A-Li Luo, Wei Zhang, Xiao Kong, Yan-Xia Zhang, Shi-Yin Shen, Yong-Heng Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acd69c
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Summary:This article reports a sample of 1830 strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies discovered with the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and the photometric catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We newly identify 402 spectra of 346 strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies by finding compact isolated point sources. Combined with the samples in our previous work, this returns a sample of 1830 unique strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies with 2033 spectra of z ≤ 0.53. For the sources with 2 σ [O iii ] λ 4363 detections, we calculate the gas-phase metallicity with the direct- T _e method, and verify that the strong-line metallicity diagnostics calibrated with the direct- T _e method also applies to this sample. The strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies fall below several T _e -calibrated mass–metallicity relations. The N/O measurements of the strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies mainly locate at a plateau at low metallicity, indicating the product of primary nucleosynthesis. The Ne3O2 and O32 relation follows a tight linear relation with no redshift evolution. The Ne3O2 anticorrelates with the stellar mass, and at fixed stellar mass the Ne3O2 increases with the redshift. Eight sources with asymmetric [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line profiles have been identified, however with no [O iii ] λ 4363 detection, which proves the rich metal content and complex ionized-gas kinematics within the galaxies. Higher-resolution spectroscopy will be necessary to identify the ionized-gas components in detail.
ISSN:0067-0049