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arxiv: 1105.3650 · v1 · pith:5MIBJN72new · submitted 2011-05-18 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

ESO 546-G34: The most metal poor LSB galaxy?

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We present a re-analysis of spectroscopic data for 23 HII-regions in 12 blue, metal-poor low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) taking advantage of recent developments in calibrating strong-line methods. In doing so we have identified a galaxy (ESO 546-G34) which may be the most metal-poor LSB galaxy found in the local Universe. Furthermore, we see evidence that blue metal-poor LSBGs, together with blue compact galaxies (BCGs) and many other HII galaxies, fall outside the regular luminosity-metallicity relation. This suggests there might be an evolutionary connection between LSBGs and BCGs. In such case, several very metal-poor LSBGs should exist in the local Universe.

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