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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 455, 期 2, 页码 1156-1170出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2121
关键词
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: statistics
资金
- STFC [ST/M008002/1, ST/M001172/1, ST/K003119/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M008002/1, ST/M001172/1, ST/K003119/1] Funding Source: researchfish
There has been much recent work dedicated to exploring secondary correlations in the mass-metallicity relation, with significant dependence on both the SFR (SFR) and H I content being demonstrated. Previously, a paucity of molecular gas data (combined with sample selection bias) hampered the investigation of any such relation with molecular gas content. In this work, we assemble a sample of 221 galaxies from a variety of surveys in the redshift range 0 < z < 2, to explore the connection between molecular gas content and metallicity. We explore the effect of gas mass on the mass-metallicity relation, finding that the offset from the relation is negatively correlated against both molecular and total gas mass. We then employ a principle component analysis technique to explore secondary dependences in the mass-metallicity relation, finding that the secondary dependence with gas mass is significantly stronger than with SFR, and as such the underlying 'fundamental metallicity relation' is between stellar mass, metallicity, and gas mass. In particular, the metallicity dependence on SFR is simply a byproduct of the dependence on the molecular gas content, via the Schmidt-Kennicutt relation. Finally, we note that our principle component analysis finds essentially no connection between gas-phase metallicity and the efficiency of star formation.
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