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恒星形成星系中金属丰度与大小关系的起源

The origin of the relation between metallicity and size in star-forming galaxies

J. Sanchez Almeida, C. Dalla Vecchia

摘要:

对于相同的恒星质量,物理上较小的恒星形成星系也更富含金属(Ellison et al. 2008)。是什么导致了这种关系尚不清楚。EAGLE宇宙学数值模拟中的中心恒星形成星系再现了观测到的趋势。我们用它们来探索的关系的起源,假设负责大小和气相金属丰度之间的反相关的物理机制是相同的模拟和观察到的星系。我们认为有三个最可能的原因:(1)贫金属气体流入恒星形成过程,(2)富含金属的气体流出在引力势较浅的地方特别有效,(3)致密星系中恒星形成过程的效率提高。流出物(2)和增强的恒星形成效率(3)可以被丢弃。贫金属气体流入(1)导致模拟星系中的相关性。镓的尺寸随着时间的推移而增大,因此那些后来接收气体的镓既金属含量较低,又较大,从而产生了观察到的反相关。正如这个解释所预期的那样,较大的星系有较年轻的恒星星族。我们探讨的关系,这是保持高达,至少,红移8的红移的变化。

英文摘要:

For the same stellar mass, physically smaller star-forming galaxies are also metal richer (Ellison et al. 2008). What causes the relation remains unclear. The central star-forming galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological numerical simulation reproduce the observed trend. We use them to explore the origin of the relation assuming that the physical mechanism responsible for the anti-correlation between size and gas-phase metallicity is the same in the simulated and the observed galaxies. We consider the three most likely causes: (1) metal-poor gas inflows feeding the star-formation process, (2) metal-rich gas outflows particularly efficient in shallow gravitational potentials, and (3) enhanced efficiency of the star-formation process in compact galaxies. Outflows (2) and enhanced star-formation efficiency (3) can be discarded. Metal-poor gas inflows (1) cause the correlation in the simulated galaxies. Galaxies grow in size with time, so those that receive gas later are both metal poorer and larger, giving rise to the observed anti-correlation. As expected within this explanation, larger galaxies have younger stellar populations. We explore the variation with redshift of the relation, which is maintained up to, at least, redshift 8.

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