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Star-forming galaxies in SDSS: signs of metallicity evolution
Evolution of galaxies through cosmic time has been widely studied at high
redshift, but there are a few studies in this field at lower redshifts.
However, low-redshifts studies will provide important clues to the evolution of
galaxies, furnishing the required link between local and high-redshift
universe. In this work we focus on the metallicity of the gas in spiral
galaxies at low redshift looking for signs of chemical evolution. We analyze
the metallicity contents of star forming galaxies of similar luminosities at
different redshifts, we studied the metallicity of star forming galaxies from
SDSS-DR5 (Sloan Digital Sky Survey-Data Release 5), using different redshift
intervals from 0.1 to 0.4. We used the public data of SDSS-DR5 processed with
the STARLIGHT spectral synthesis code, correcting the fluxes for dust
extinction, estimating metallicities using the R23 method, and analyzing the
samples with respect to the [NII]6583/[OII]3727 line ratio. From a final sample
of 207 galaxies, we find a decrement in 12+log(O/H) corresponding to the
redshift interval 0.3 < z < 0.4 of ~0.1 dex with respect to the rest of the
sample, which can be interpreted as evidence of the metallicity evolution in
low-z galaxies.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Metallicity estimates with SDSS-DR6
Abstract We present a study of the metallicity of 20268 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey -Data Release 6 (SDSS-DR6) using the R 23 method, and derive analytical calibrations from several metallicity-sensitive line ratios: [ performed the study for the resdshift interval (0.04-0.1) for all the Sloan survey release. This is the first part of a more complete work which aims to study the metallicity dependances of the star-forming galaxies in the Local Unvierse