{
  "id": "1503.08822",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-03-30T20:00:22.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-03-30T20:00:22.000Z",
  "title": "HII Region Metallicity Constraints Near the Site of the Strongly Lensed Supernova \"SN Refsdal\" at Redshift 1.49",
  "authors": [
    "T. -T. Yuan",
    "C. Kobayashi",
    "L. J. Kewley"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.GA",
    "astro-ph.CO"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present the local HII region metallicity near the site of the recently discovered multiply lensed supernova (SN; \"SN Refsdal\") at redshift 1.49. \"SN Refsdal\" is located at the outer spiral arm ($\\sim$7 kpc) of the lensed host galaxy, which we have previously reported to exhibit a steep negative galactocentric metallicity gradient. Based on our updated near-infrared integral field spectroscopic data, the gas-phase metallicity averaged in an intrinsic radius of $\\sim$ 550 pc surrounding an HII region $\\sim$ 200 pc away from the SN site is 12 + log(O/H)$_{\\rm PP04N2}$ $\\le$ 8.67. The metallicity averaged over nine HII regions at similar galactocentric distances ($\\sim$5-7 kpc) as \"SN Refsdal\" is constrained to be 12 + log(O/H)$_{\\rm PP04N2}$ $\\le$ 8.11. Given the fortuitous discovery of \"SN Refsdal\" in an advantageously lensed face-on spiral, this is the first observational constraint on the local metallicity environment of an SN site at redshift $z>1$.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-03-30T20:00:22.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "sn refsdal",
      "hii region metallicity constraints",
      "strongly lensed supernova",
      "integral field spectroscopic data",
      "negative galactocentric metallicity gradient"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/2041-8205/804/1/L14"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1357150
    }
  }
}