Carbon and Oxygen Abundances from Recombination Lines in Low Metallicity H II Regions

Esteban, C.; García-Rojas, J.; Mesa-Delgado, A.
Bibliographical reference

XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting (Eds. A. Mateus, J. Gregorio-Hetem & R. Cid Fernandes) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 44, pp. 18-18 (2014)

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2014
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Description
We have measured C II and O II recombination lines in several H II regions of low-metallicity dwarf galaxies. These objects show lower C/O ratios than H II regions in spiral galaxies, indicating different chemical evolution histories.