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冷气体和环境对邻近星系恒星质量-金属丰度关系的作用

The role of cold gas and environment on the stellar mass - metallicity relation of nearby galaxies

T. M. Hughes, L. Cortese, A. Boselli, G. Gavazzi, J. I. Davies

摘要:

我们研究了恒星质量、金属丰度和气体含量之间的关系,从孤立星系到室女星系团成员,选取了260个不同环境中的邻近晚型星系作为样本。我们使用新的集成,漂移扫描光谱和Kewley & Ellison(2008)的基本金属丰度校准来获得氧丰度估计。结合紫外-近红外测光和HI 21 cm谱线观测,我们研究了恒星质量、金属丰度、气体质量分数和恒星形成率之间的关系。我们发现,在固定的恒星质量,具有较低气体分数的星系通常也具有较高的氧丰度。我们还观察到气体分数和金属含量之间的关系,从而气体贫乏的星系通常更富含金属,并表明,从螺旋的外围气体的去除增加了约0.1德克斯所观察到的平均金属丰度。虽然有些星系团是缺乏气体的天体,但从统计上看,恒星质量的金属丰度关系对环境几乎是不变的,这与最近的研究一致。这些结果表明,内部的演化过程,而不是环境的影响,在塑造恒星质量金属丰度关系中发挥了关键作用。此外,我们提出的金属丰度估计的基础上观测附近的478个星系。

英文摘要:

We investigate the relationship between stellar mass, metallicity and gas content for a magnitude- and volume-limited sample of 260 nearby late-type galaxies in different environments, from isolated galaxies to Virgo cluster members. We derive oxygen abundance estimates using new integrated, drift-scan optical spectroscopy and the base metallicity calibrations of Kewley & Ellison (2008). Combining these measurements with ultraviolet to near-infrared photometry and HI 21 cm line observations, we examine the relations between stellar mass, metallicity, gas mass fraction and star formation rate. We find that, at fixed stellar mass, galaxies with lower gas fractions typically also possess higher oxygen abundances. We also observe a relationship between gas fraction and metal content, whereby gas-poor galaxies are typically more metal-rich, and demonstrate that the removal of gas from the outskirts of spirals increases the observed average metallicity by approximately 0.1 dex. Although some cluster galaxies are gas-deficient objects, statistically the stellar-mass metallicity relation is nearly invariant to the environment, in agreement with recent studies. These results indicate that internal evolutionary processes, rather than environmental effects, play a key role in shaping the stellar mass-metallicity relation. In addition, we present metallicity estimates based on observations of 478 nearby galaxies.

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