{"paper":{"title":"HII Region Oxygen Abundances in Starbursting Transition Dwarf Galaxies","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph","authors_text":"J. S. Gallagher, K. E. Dellenbusch, P. M. Knezek","submitted_at":"2006-12-11T21:31:18Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present empirical HII region oxygen abundances for a sample of low-luminosity starburst galaxies which are in a short lived evolutionary state. All five galaxies are characterized by centrally concentrated star formation, which is embedded in smooth stellar envelopes resembling dE-like systems. The galaxies also have small gas contents with typical M_{HI}/L_{B} ~ 0.1 resulting in gas exhaustion timescales less than 1 Gyr, even when molecular gas is considered. We find, compared to other morphologically similar systems, the galaxies of this sample have surprisingly high oxygen abundances wit"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"astro-ph/0612292","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}