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极贫金属蓝致密矮星系的HI含量

The HI content of extremely metal-deficient blue compact dwarf galaxies

T. X. Thuan, K. M. Goehring, J. E. Hibbard, Y. I. Izotov, L. K. Hunt

AI总结:

本研究利用GBT观测29个极贫金属蓝致密矮星系的HI含量,结合多源样本分析其与星系属性的关联,揭示了气体质量分数演化、耗竭时间及金属丰度分布等规律。

摘要:

我们利用100米Green Bank Telescope(GBT,格林班克望远镜)获取了29个极贫金属恒星形成蓝致密矮(BCD)星系样本的新HI观测数据,这些星系从Sloan Digital Sky Survey(斯隆数字巡天,SDSS)光谱数据库中筛选而出,满足极贫金属条件(12+logO/H<7.6)。其中28个星系探测到了中性氢,探测率达97%。我们将HI数据与该BCD样本的SDSS光学光谱相结合,并补充文献中的星系样本以拓展金属丰度和质量范围,研究了星系HI含量随各类星系整体属性的变化规律。研究发现气体质量分数随金属丰度、质量和光度的降低呈现清晰的上升趋势。我们得到了M(HI)/L(g)~L(g)^{-0.3}的关系,与此前基于更小光度范围样本的研究结果一致。该GBT样本的气体质量分数中位数为0.94,平均值为0.90±0.15,下限约为0.65。HI耗竭时间与金属丰度无关,在3.4 Gyr的中位值附近存在较大的离散性。贫金属BCD星系的重子质量与动力学质量之比在0.05到0.80之间,中位值约为0.2。我们样本中约65%的BCD星系有效产额大于真实产额,这意味着BCD星系的中性气体包层与电离气体相比,金属丰度低1.5到20倍。

英文摘要:

We have obtained new HI observations with the 100m Green Bank Telescope (GBT) for a sample of 29 extremely metal-deficient star-forming Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectral data base to be extremely metal-deficient (12+logO/H<7.6). Neutral hydrogen was detected in 28 galaxies, a 97% detection rate. Combining the HI data with SDSS optical spectra for the BCD sample and adding complementary galaxy samples from the literature to extend the metallicity and mass ranges, we have studied how the HI content of a galaxy varies with various global galaxian properties. There is a clear trend of increasing gas mass fraction with decreasing metallicity, mass and luminosity. We obtain the relation M(HI)/L(g)~L(g)^{-0.3}, in agreement with previous studies based on samples with a smaller luminosity range. The median gas mass fraction f(gas) for the GBT sample is equal to 0.94 while the mean gas mass fraction is 0.90+/-0.15, with a lower limit of ~0.65. The HI depletion time is independent of metallicity, with a large scatter around the median value of 3.4 Gyr. The ratio of the baryonic mass to the dynamical mass of the metal-deficient BCDs varies from 0.05 to 0.80, with a median value of ~0.2. About 65% of the BCDs in our sample have an effective yield larger than the true yield, implying that the neutral gas envelope in BCDs is more metal-deficient by a factor of 1.5-20, as compared to the ionized gas.

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