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arXiv 2004.09482astro-ph.GA
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量化空间分辨率和噪声对星系金属丰度梯度的影响

Quantifying the effects of spatial resolution and noise on galaxy metallicity gradients

Ayan Acharyya, Mark R. Krumholz, Christoph Federrath, Lisa J. Kewley, Nathan J. Goldbaum, Rob Sharp

摘要:

金属丰度梯度是星系演化的重要诊断,因为它们记录了合并、气体流入和恒星形成等事件的历史。然而,可以测量梯度的精度受到空间分辨率和噪声的限制,因此需要针对这些影响对测量进行校正。我们使用高分辨率(~20 pc)模拟的一个面对银河系质量星系,再加上光电离模型,产生一套合成的高分辨率积分场光谱(IFS)数据管。然后,我们降低了数据立方体,与一系列的现实模型的空间分辨率(2至16束每星系尺度长度)和噪声,调查和量化如何以及输入金属丰度梯度可以恢复为分辨率和信噪比(SNR)的函数,目的是与现代IFS调查,如MaNGA和SAMI比较。考虑到不确定性的适当传播和低SNR像素的修剪,我们表明,每个星系尺度长度3-4个望远镜光束的分辨率足以将梯度恢复到~10-20%的不确定性。对于较低分辨率,不确定度上升至~60%。包含低SNR像素导致推断梯度中的不确定性恶化。我们的研究结果可以潜在地告知未来的IFS调查的分辨率和信噪比所需的金属丰度梯度测量达到所需的精度。

英文摘要:

Metallicity gradients are important diagnostics of galaxy evolution, because they record the history of events such as mergers, gas inflow and star-formation. However, the accuracy with which gradients can be measured is limited by spatial resolution and noise, and hence measurements need to be corrected for such effects. We use high resolution (~20 pc) simulation of a face-on Milky Way mass galaxy, coupled with photoionisation models, to produce a suite of synthetic high resolution integral field spectroscopy (IFS) datacubes. We then degrade the datacubes, with a range of realistic models for spatial resolution (2 to 16 beams per galaxy scale length) and noise, to investigate and quantify how well the input metallicity gradient can be recovered as a function of resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with the intention to compare with modern IFS surveys like MaNGA and SAMI. Given appropriate propagation of uncertainties and pruning of low SNR pixels, we show that a resolution of 3-4 telescope beams per galaxy scale length is sufficient to recover the gradient to ~10-20% uncertainty. The uncertainty escalates to ~60% for lower resolution. Inclusion of the low SNR pixels causes the uncertainty in the inferred gradient to deteriorate. Our results can potentially inform future IFS surveys regarding the resolution and SNR required to achieve a desired accuracy in metallicity gradient measurements.

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