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小型和邻近旋涡星系的金属丰度梯度

Metallicity gradients in small and nearby spiral galaxies

Fabio Bresolin

摘要:

用Gemini/GMOS获得的HII区光谱导出了四个小的低质量旋涡星系的径向金属丰度梯度。对其中一个星系NGC 1058的外盘的分析揭示了在类似的扩展盘星系中发现的特征性扁平。结合这些数据与发表的长缝观测附近的螺旋星系,没有证据的依赖性的磁盘尺度长度归一化的金属丰度梯度与恒星质量被发现,下降到log(M*/Msun)~ 8.5。来自这些观测的丰度梯度进行比较,从最近的宇宙学模拟星系演化的预测,发现在几种情况下,模拟未能再现平均陡峭的梯度,表示在德克斯/千秒差距,减少恒星质量为现今的星系,或不扩展到足够小的恒星质量的一个有意义的比较。平均陡峭的丰度梯度(在德克斯/千秒差距),减少磁盘尺度长度是在定性协议从内到外模型的Boissier和Prantzos的预测,虽然预测的斜率系统比观察到的更陡。这表明,在类似的星系化学演化模型中,有必要包括外流和径向混合等过程。已发表的矮不规则星系的空间分辨金属丰度和光度数据表明,对于经历了最近(t <1亿年)增强的内部盘恒星形成的系统,可以发展出显著但短暂的金属丰度梯度。

英文摘要:

Spectra of HII regions obtained with Gemini/GMOS are used to derive the radial metallicity gradients of four small, low-mass spiral galaxies. The analysis of the outer disk of one of them, NGC 1058, uncovers the characteristic flattening found in similar extended disk galaxies. After combining these data with published long-slit observations of nearby spiral galaxies, no evidence for a dependence of the disk scale length-normalized metallicity gradients with stellar mass is found, down to log(M*/Msun) ~ 8.5. The abundance gradients derived from these observations are compared to predictions from recent cosmological simulations of galaxy evolution, finding that in several cases the simulations fail to reproduce the mean steepening of the gradients, expressed in dex/kpc, with decreasing stellar mass for present-day galaxies, or do not extend to sufficiently small stellar masses for a meaningful comparison. The mean steepening of the abundance gradients (in dex/kpc) with decreasing disk scale length is in qualitative agreement with predictions from the inside-out model of Boissier & Prantzos, although the predicted slopes are systematically steeper than observed. This indicates the necessity of including processes such as outflows and radial mixing in similar models of galactic chemical evolution. Published spatially resolved metallicity and photometric data of dwarf irregular galaxies suggest that significant, but transitory, metallicity gradients can develop for systems that have experienced recent (t < 100 Myr) enhanced star formation in their inner disks.

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