2021MNRAS.508.3023M -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 508, 3023-3034 (2021/December-1)
Chemical abundances in Seyfert galaxies - VIII. Argon abundance estimates.
MONTEIRO A.F. and DORS O.L.
Abstract (from CDS):
For the first time, the argon abundance relative to hydrogen abundance (Ar/H) in the narrow line region of a sample of Seyfert 2 nuclei has been derived. In view of this, optical narrow emission line intensities of a sample of 64 local Seyfert 2 nuclei (z < 0.25) taken from Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 and measured by the MPA/JHU group were considered. We adopted the Te-method for AGNs, which is based on direct determination of the electron temperature, together with a grid of photoionization model results, built with the CLOUDY code, to obtain a method for the derivation of the Ar/H abundance. We find that for a metallicity range of 0.2 \: ≲\: (Z/Z☉) \: ≲\: 2.0, Seyfert 2 nuclei present Ar/H abundance ranging from ∼0.1 to ∼3 times the argon solar value, adopting log(O/H)☉=-3.31 and log(Ar/H)☉=-5.60. These range of values correspond to 8.0 \: ≲\: (12+log(O/H) \: ≲\: 9.0 and 5.4 \: ≲\: (12+log(Ar/H) \: ≲\: 6.9, respectively. The range of Ar/H and Ar/O abundance values obtained from our sample are in consonance with estimations from extrapolations of the radial abundance gradients to the central parts of the disc for four spiral galaxies. We combined our abundance results with estimates obtained from a sample of H II galaxies, which were taken from the literature, and found that the Ar/O abundance ratio decreases slightly as the O/H abundance increases.
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© 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
ISM: abundances - galaxies: abundances - galaxies: active - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: nuclei - galaxies: Seyfert
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