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关于SF星系的质量、金属丰度和SFR空间的三维结构

On the 3D structure of the mass, metallicity, and SFR space for SF galaxies

Maritza A. Lara-Lopez, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Andrew M. Hopkins

摘要:

我们证明了由恒星形成率(SFR),气相金属丰度(Z)和恒星质量(M)形成的空间,可以减少到一个平面,首先由拉拉洛佩兹等人提出的。我们研究了三种不同的方法来找到这个3D空间的最佳表示,使用主成分分析,回归拟合,和binning的数据。PCA表明,该3D空间可以仅在2维中充分表示,即,飞机了我们发现,使所有变量的chi ^2最小的平面,从而提供了数据的最佳表示,对应于恒星质量作为SFR和$Z$的函数的回归拟合,M=f(Z,SFR)。我们发现,由我们的数据的箱中的中值得到的分布给出了最高的卡方面积。我们还表明,用于推导基本金属丰度关系(Nagao等人)的氧丰度的经验校准。有重要的局限性,这导致了明显的不一致。主要问题是这些经验校准没有考虑气体的电离度。此外,由于[NII]6584线在高金属度区域的饱和,使用N2指数来估计氧丰度不能应用于~8.8。最后,我们提供了一个更新的基本面来自劳拉-洛佩兹等人。

英文摘要:

We demonstrate that the space formed by the star-formation rate (SFR), gas-phase metallicity (Z), and stellar mass (M), can be reduced to a plane, as first proposed by Lara-Lopez et al. We study three different approaches to find the best representation of this 3D space, using a principal component analysis, a regression fit, and binning of the data. The PCA shows that this 3D space can be adequately represented in only 2 dimensions, i.e., a plane. We find that the plane that minimises the chi^2 for all variables, and hence provides the best representation of the data, corresponds to a regression fit to the stellar mass as a function of SFR and $Z$, M=f(Z,SFR). We find that the distribution resulting from the median values in bins for our data gives the highest chi^2. We also show that the empirical calibrations to the oxygen abundance used to derive the Fundamental Metallicity Relation (Nagao et al.) have important limitations, which contribute to the apparent inconsistencies. The main problem is that these empirical calibrations do not consider the ionization degree of the gas. Furthermore, the use of the N2 index to estimate oxygen abundances cannot be applied for ~8.8 because of the saturation of the [NII]6584 line in the high-metallicity regime. Finally we provide an update of the Fundamental Plane derived by Lara-Lopez et al.

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