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金属向加尔默罗气态郊区的迁移

Metal Transport to the Gaseous Outskirts of Galaxies

Jessica Werk, Mary Putman, Gerhardt Meurer, Nitza Santiago-Figueroa

摘要:

我们提出了一个在附近(D < 40 Mpc)星系的扩展气体外围的外围HII区域的搜索,以及随后的多缝光谱用于获得HII区域星云氧丰度。我们样本中的星系具有扩展的HI盘和/或与相互作用相关的HI特征,这些特征远远超出了它们的主要恒星成分。我们报告的氧丰度梯度的光学半径的2.5倍,这些星系跨越一系列的形态和质量。我们分析了HII区域附近的基本恒星和中性HI气体分布,以了解引起星系中观察到的金属分布的物理过程。这些测量,第一次,令人信服地显示平坦的丰度分布到大半径的各种系统,并有广泛的影响星系化学动力学演化。

英文摘要:

We present a search for outlying HII regions in the extended gaseous outskirts of nearby (D < 40 Mpc) galaxies, and subsequent multi-slit spectroscopy used to obtain the HII region nebular oxygen abundances. The galaxies in our sample have extended HI disks and/or interaction-related HI features that extend well beyond their primary stellar components. We report oxygen abundance gradients out to 2.5 times the optical radius for these galaxies which span a range of morphologies and masses. We analyze the underlying stellar and neutral HI gas distributions in the vicinity of the HII regions to understand the physical processes that give rise to the observed metal distributions in galaxies. These measurements, for the first time, convincingly show flat abundance distributions out to large radii in a wide variety of systems, and have broad implications for galaxy chemodynamical evolution.

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