Abstract
AbstractWe have obtained new spectrophotometric data for 28 Hii regions in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, a member of the nearby Sculptor Group. The detection of several auroral lines has allowed us to measure electron temperatures and direct chemical abundances for the whole sample. We determine for the first time in this galaxy a radial gas-phase oxygen abundance gradient based solely on auroral lines. The gradient corresponds to −0.077±0.006 dex kpc−1, which agrees very well with the galactocentric trend in metallicity obtained for 29 B and A supergiants in the same galaxy. The intercept of the regression for the nebular data virtually coincides with the intercept obtained from the stellar data. This result provides increased confidence on the direct method to determine extragalactic nebular abundances.
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