Delving into the gas-phase of the CALIFA galaxies to trace O and N gradients

Abstract

AbstractWe study the radial distribution of oxygen and nitrogen abundances in H ii regions in 350 galaxies observed in the CALIFA survey using the semi-empirical N-sensitive code Hii-Chi-mistry. A separate analysis of N/O when using [N ii] is justified as the dispersion in the O/H-N/O diagram is very large. In fact different O/H and N/O slope distributions and flattening in the outskirts are obtained.On the other hand there is a tight correlation between O/H and N/O when the values of the fittings at the effective radius are considered as representative of each galaxy.