9 papers
Beyond the [OIII]4363 auroral line: [NeIII]3868 as a direct tracer of electron temperature
Borja Pérez-DÃaz, José M. VÃlchez, Marco Castellano +9
Auroral lines enable accurate measurements of chemical abundances in ionized gaseous nebulae thanks to their sensitivity to electron temperature. However, metal-enriched systems re…
Not So Isolated: Green Pea Galaxies in Overdense Environments revealed by VLT/MUSE
A. Arroyo-Polonio, J. M. VÃlchez, J. Iglesias-Páramo +9
Context. Green Pea galaxies (GPs) are local starburst galaxies serving as analogues for high-redshift star-forming galaxies, particularly Lyman continuum leakers. It remains debate…
The k-MENDEL sample of local analogs to reionization galaxies. Spectral identification of EELGs and properties of green peas in DESI
L. Bonatto, R. AmorÃn, A. Giménez-Alcázar +7
Low-mass galaxies with intense starbursts exhibit spectra dominated by extreme nebular emission and faint stellar continua. These extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) are key lab…
Wild is the wind from low-luminosity AGN: a jet-driven gas bubble blowing out a massive CO-dark outflow in ESO 420-G13
J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, L. Spinoglio, M. Pereira-Santaella +8
We present JWST/MIRI mid-infrared integral field spectroscopy combined with ALMA CO(2-1) observations of the post-starburst galaxy ESO 420-G13, hosting a low-luminosity AGN. The un…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Northern Local Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies. Analogues of the First Galaxies and Probes of the Cosmic Metallicity Scale
C. Esteban, J. M. Vilchez, J. GarcÃa-Rojas +15
Star-forming dwarf galaxies in the local Universe, especially extremely metal-poor ones, can be considered analogous to early galaxies of the Epoch of Reionization (z >= 6). Curren…
Sulphur abundances in star-forming regions from optical emission lines: A new approach based on photoionization models consistent with the direct method
Enrique Pérez-Montero, Borja Pérez-DÃaz, José M. VÃlchez +5
The derivation of sulphur chemical abundances in the gas-phase of star-forming galaxies is explored in this work, using the emission lines produced in these regions in the optical…