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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 859, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aabe8f
Keywords
galaxies: formation; galaxies: high redshift; galaxies: star formation; stars: abundances
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- National Science Foundation (NSF
- USA) [PHY-1430152]
- ERC Consolidator Grant (Hungary) funding scheme (project RADIOSTAR) [724560]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [NNX15AP39G, HST-AR-13261.01-A]
- NSF [AST-1514700, AST-1615848, AST-1333360, AST-1614333]
- NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship program
- NASA [NNX17AG23G]
- Hubble theory grants [HST-AR-13895, HST-AR-14326]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1430152] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) [1514580] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We use a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation calculated with Enzo and the semi-analytic galaxy formation model (SAM) GAMMA to address the chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies in the early universe. The long-term goal of the project is to better understand the origin of metal-poor stars and the formation of dwarf galaxies and the Milky Way halo by cross-validating these theoretical approaches. We combine GAMMA with the merger tree of the most massive galaxy found in the hydrodynamic simulation and compare the star formation rate, the metallicity distribution function (MDF), and the age-metallicity relationship predicted by the two approaches. We found that the SAM can reproduce the global trends of the hydrodynamic simulation. However, there are degeneracies between the model parameters, and more constraints (e.g., star formation efficiency, gas flows) need to be extracted from the simulation to isolate the correct semi-analytic solution. Stochastic processes such as bursty star formation histories and star formation triggered by supernova explosions cannot be reproduced by the current version of GAMMA. Non-uniform mixing in the galaxy's interstellar medium, coming primarily from self-enrichment by local supernovae, causes a broadening in the MDF that can be emulated in the SAM by convolving its predicted MDF with a Gaussian function having a standard deviation of similar to 0.2 dex. We found that the most massive galaxy in the simulation retains nearby 100% of its baryonic mass within its virial radius, which is in agreement with what is needed in GAMMA to reproduce the global trends of the simulation.
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