The Primordial Abundance of He4: An Update
arXiv:astro-ph/9611166 · doi:10.1086/304281
Abstract
We include new data in an updated analysis of helium in low metallicity extragalactic HII regions with the goal of deriving the primordial abundance of He4 (Y_P). We show that the new observations of Izotov et al (ITL) are consistent with previous data. However they should not be taken in isolation to determine (Y_P) due to the lack of sufficiently low metallicity points. We use the extant data in a semi-empirical approach to bounding the size of possible systematic uncertainties in the determination of (Y_P). Our best estimate for the primordial abundance of He4 assuming a linear relation between He4 and O/H is Y_P = 0.230 \pm 0.003 (stat) based on the subset of HII regions with the lowest metallicity; for our full data set we find Y_P = 0.234 \pm 0.002 (stat). Both values are entirely consistent with our previous results. We discuss the implications of these values for standard big bang nucleosynthesis (SBBN), particularly in the context of recent measurements of deuterium in high redshift, low metallicity QSO absorption-line systems.
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