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近红外光谱研究z~3.3恒星形成星系的ISM激发和金属丰度

ISM excitation and metallicity of star-forming galaxies at z~3.3 from near-IR spectroscopy

M. Onodera, C. M. Carollo, S. Lilly, A. Renzini, N. Arimoto, P. Capak, E. Daddi, N. Scoville, S. Tacchella, S. Tatehora, G. Zamorani

摘要:

我们研究了$3 \lesssim z \lesssim 3.7$上41个正常恒星形成星系的恒星质量、恒星形成率(SFR)、电离态和气相金属丰度之间的关系。气相氧丰度,电离参数,电离气体的电子密度来自与Keck/MOSFIRE获得的近红外光谱上测量的静止帧光学强发射线。通过光谱能量分布拟合,我们去除了宽带通量中这些强发射线的影响来计算恒星质量,而SFR来自于尘埃校正的紫外光度。电离参数与特定的SFR弱相关,但电离参数和电子密度与其他全球星系性质,如恒星质量,SFR和金属丰度不相关。$z\simeq3.3$的质量-金属丰度关系(MZR)表明,在相同的恒星质量下,其金属丰度比$z=0$低$\simeq 0.7$ dex。我们的样本显示了从局部定义的质量-金属丰度-SFR关系中偏移了$\simeq 0.3$ dex,这表明简单地将这种关系外推到更高的红移可能会预测MZR的不正确演化。此外,在不确定性,我们发现没有SFR金属丰度的相关性,这表明SFR在控制金属丰度在高红移的作用不太重要。最后,我们使用Lilly等人(2013)的模型研究了MZR的红移演化,发现观测到的从$z=0$到$z\simeq3.3$的演化可以通过假设恒星形成效率的弱红移演化的模型来解释。

英文摘要:

We study the relationship between stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR),ionization state, and gas-phase metallicity for a sample of 41 normal star-forming galaxies at $3 \lesssim z \lesssim 3.7$. The gas-phase oxygen abundance, ionization parameter, and electron density of ionized gas are derived from rest-frame optical strong emission lines measured on near-infrared spectra obtained with Keck/MOSFIRE. We remove the effect of these strong emission lines in the broad-band fluxes to compute stellar masses via spectral energy distribution fitting, while the SFR is derived from the dust-corrected ultraviolet luminosity. The ionization parameter is weakly correlated with the specific SFR, but otherwise the ionization parameter and electron density do not correlate with other global galaxy properties such as stellar mass, SFR, and metallicity. The mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at $z\simeq3.3$ shows lower metallicity by $\simeq 0.7$ dex than that at $z=0$ at the same stellar mass. Our sample shows an offset by $\simeq 0.3$ dex from the locally defined mass-metallicity-SFR relation, indicating that simply extrapolating such relation to higher redshift may predict an incorrect evolution of MZR. Furthermore, within the uncertainties we find no SFR-metallicity correlation, suggesting a less important role of SFR in controlling the metallicity at high redshift. We finally investigate the redshift evolution of the MZR by using the model by Lilly et al. (2013), finding that the observed evolution from $z=0$ to $z\simeq3.3$ can be accounted for by the model assuming a weak redshift evolution of the star formation efficiency.

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