HII-CHI-Mistry-UV for AGN. Abundances [Dataset]

We present an adapted version of the code HII-CHI-mistry-UV (Perez-Montero & Amorin, 2017MNRAS.467.1287P) to derive chemical abundances from emission lines in the ultraviolet, for use in narrow line regions (NLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We evaluate different ultraviolet emission line ra...

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Autores: Pérez-Montero, E., Pérez-Díaz, B., Vílchez, J. M., García-Benito, R.
Tipo de recurso: conjunto de datos
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/365473
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/365473
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.521.1556P
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/521/1556
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/vizier/catstd/ADCkwds.htx
Active gal. nuclei
Abundances
Ultraviolet
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Sumario:We present an adapted version of the code HII-CHI-mistry-UV (Perez-Montero & Amorin, 2017MNRAS.467.1287P) to derive chemical abundances from emission lines in the ultraviolet, for use in narrow line regions (NLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We evaluate different ultraviolet emission line ratios and how different assumptions about the models, including the presence of dust grains, the shape of the incident spectral energy distribution, or the thickness of the gas envelope around the central source, may affect the final estimates as a function of the set of emission lines used. We compare our results with other published recipes for deriving abundances using the same emission lines and show that deriving the carbon-to-oxygen abundance ratio using CIII] {lambda}1909{AA} and OIII] {lambda}1665{AA} emission lines is a robust indicator of the metal content in AGN that is nearly independent of model assumptions, similar to the case of star-forming regions. Moreover, we show that a prior determination of C/O allows for a much more precise determination of the total oxygen abundance using carbon UV lines, as op- posed to assuming an arbitrary relationship between O/H and C/O, which can lead to non-negligible discrepancies.