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    Chemical abundances in Seyfert galaxies – X. Sulphur abundance estimates
    (Royal Astronomical Society) Dors Junior, Oli Luiz; Valerdi, Mabel; Riffel, Rogemar A.; Riffel, Rogério; Cardaci, Mónica Viviana; Hägele, Guilhermo F.; Armah, Mark; Revalski, Mitchell; Flury, Sophia; Lemes, Priscila Freitas; Amôres, Eduardo; Krabbe, Angela Cristina; Binette, Luc; Feltre, Anna; Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi
    For the first time, the sulphur abundance relative to hydrogen (S/H) in the narrow-line regions of a sample of Seyfert 2 nuclei (Sy 2s) has been derived via direct estimation of the electron temperature. Narrow emission-line intensities from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 17 (DR17) [in the wavelength range 3000 < λ(Å) < 9100] and from the literature for a sample of 45 nearby (z < 0.08) Sy 2s were considered. Our direct estimates indicate that Sy 2s have similar temperatures in the gas region where most of the S+ ions are located in comparison with that of star-forming regions (SFs). However, Sy 2s present higher temperature values (∼10 000 K) in the region where most of the S2+ ions are located relative to that of SFs. We derive the total sulphur abundance in the range of 6.2 􏰀 12 + log(S/H) 􏰀 7.5, corresponding to 0.1–1.8 times the solar value. These sulphur abundance values are lower by ∼0.4 dex than those derived in SFs with similar metallicity, indicating a distinct chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium (ISM) for these object classes. The sulphur abundance relative to oxygen (S/O) values for our Sy 2 sample present an abrupt (∼0.5 dex) decrease with increasing oxygen abundance relative to hydrogen (O/H) for the high-metallicity regime [12 + log(O/H) 􏰁 8.7)], what is not seen for the SFs. However, when our Sy 2 estimates are combined with those from a large sample of SFs, we did not find any dependence between S/O and O/H.