Adding SITELLE [O II] to PHANGS-MUSE for 556 H II regions recovers known metallicity-calibration offsets, shows <0.03–0.04 dex gradient scatter for many methods, and favors [S III]/[S II] as a robust ionization tracer.
Conversions between gas-phase metallicities in MaNGA
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We present polynomial conversions between each of 11 different strong line gas-phase metallicity calibrations, each based on $\sim$ 1.1 million star-forming spaxels in the public Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 15 (DR15) Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey. For this sample, which is $\sim$ 20 times larger than previous works, we present 5th order polynomial fits for each of 110 possible calibration conversions, for both Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)-type and Milky Way (MW)-type dust corrections. The typical $2\sigma$ scatter around our polynomial fits is 0.1 dex; we present the range over which the metallicities are valid. Conversions between metallicities which rely on the same set of line ratios, or a heavily shared set of emission lines, have reduced scatter in their conversions relative to those conversions with little overlap in required emission lines. Calibration conversions with less consistent sets of emission lines also have increased galaxy-to-galaxy variability, and this variability can account for up to 35% of the total scatter. We also compare our conversions to previous work with the single fibre SDSS DR7 spectra along with higher spatial resolution data from the TYPHOON Integral Field Spectroscopy survey, resulting in comparison samples with spatial resolutions from several kpc down to $\sim$100 pc. Our metallicity conversions, obtained with the large sample of MaNGA, are robust against the influence of diffuse ionized gas, redshift, effective radius and spatial blurring, and are therefore consistent across both integrated spectra and the high resolution integral field spectroscopy data.
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Exploring the synergies of $[\mathrm{O\,II}]\lambda 3727$ with MUSE spectroscopy in PHANGS H II regions
Adding SITELLE [O II] to PHANGS-MUSE for 556 H II regions recovers known metallicity-calibration offsets, shows <0.03–0.04 dex gradient scatter for many methods, and favors [S III]/[S II] as a robust ionization tracer.