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论局域宇宙中质量-金属丰度梯度关系的起源

On the origin of the mass-metallicity gradient relation in the local Universe

Piyush Sharda, Mark R. Krumholz, Emily Wisnioski, Ayan Acharyya, Christoph Federrath, John C. Forbes

摘要:

除了众所周知的气相质量-金属丰度关系(MZR),最近的空间分辨观测表明,本地星系也服从质量-金属丰度梯度关系(MZGR),金属丰度梯度可以随星系质量系统地变化。在这项工作中,我们使用我们最近开发的分析模型的金属丰度分布在星系盘,其中包括广泛的物理过程-径向平流,金属扩散,宇宙吸积,和金属富集流出-同时分析MZR和MZGR。我们表明,相同的物理原理支配着两者的形状:中心峰值的金属产生有利于更陡的梯度,而这种陡峭化被贫金属气体的添加所稀释,这些气体是由低质量星系的向内平流和宇宙学吸积提供的。大质量星系。的MZR和MZGR都弯曲星系恒星质量$\sim 10^{10} - 10^{10.5}\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$,我们表明,这一功能对应于星系的过渡,从对流为主的吸积为主的制度。我们还发现,MZR和MZGR强烈表明,低质量星系优先失去金属夹带在他们的星系风。虽然这种金属富集的星系外流是至关重要的复制MZR和MZGR在低质量端,我们表明,无论其风的性质,在大规模星系的梯度变平。

英文摘要:

In addition to the well-known gas phase mass-metallicity relation (MZR), recent spatially-resolved observations have shown that local galaxies also obey a mass-metallicity gradient relation (MZGR) whereby metallicity gradients can vary systematically with galaxy mass. In this work, we use our recently-developed analytic model for metallicity distributions in galactic discs, which includes a wide range of physical processes -- radial advection, metal diffusion, cosmological accretion, and metal-enriched outflows -- to simultaneously analyse the MZR and MZGR. We show that the same physical principles govern the shape of both: centrally-peaked metal production favours steeper gradients, and this steepening is diluted by the addition of metal-poor gas, which is supplied by inward advection for low-mass galaxies and by cosmological accretion for massive galaxies. The MZR and the MZGR both bend at galaxy stellar mass $\sim 10^{10} - 10^{10.5}\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$, and we show that this feature corresponds to the transition of galaxies from the advection-dominated to the accretion-dominated regime. We also find that both the MZR and MZGR strongly suggest that low-mass galaxies preferentially lose metals entrained in their galactic winds. While this metal-enrichment of the galactic outflows is crucial for reproducing both the MZR and the MZGR at the low-mass end, we show that the flattening of gradients in massive galaxies is expected regardless of the nature of their winds.

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