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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 487, 期 1, 页码 456-474出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1165
关键词
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM
资金
- European Research Council [772293]
- United Kingdom (UK) Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) [ST/M000958/1]
- United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- European Research Council (ERC) [695671]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- Centre for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah
- Brazilian ParticipationGroup
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Chilean Participation Group
- French Participation Group
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Leibniz Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPAGarching)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
- National Astronomical Observatory of China
- New Mexico State University
- New York University
- University of Notre Dame
- Observatario Nacional/MCTI
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- United Kingdom Participation Group
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- University of Arizona
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Oxford
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin
- Vanderbilt University
- Yale University
- STFC [ST/R000905/1, ST/M000958/1, ST/M001172/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We model gas-phase metallicity radial profiles of galaxies in the local Universe by building on the 'bathtub' chemical evolution formalism - where a galaxy's gas content is determined by the interplay between inflow, star formation, and outflows. In particular, we take into account inside-out disc growth and add physically motivated prescriptions for radial gradients in star formation efficiency (SFE). We fit analytical models against the metallicity radial profiles of low-redshift star-forming galaxies in the mass range log (M-star/M-circle dot) = [9.0-11.0] derived by Belfiore et al., using data from the MaNGA survey. The models provide excellent fits to the data and are capable of reproducing the change in shape of the radial metallicity profiles, including the flattening observed in the centres of massive galaxies. We derive the posterior probability distribution functions for the model parameters and find significant degeneracies between them. The parameters describing the disc assembly time-scale are not strongly constrained from the metallicity profiles, while useful constrains are obtained for the SFE (and its radial dependence) and the outflow loading factor. The inferred value for the SFE is in good agreement with observational determinations. The inferred outflow loading factor is found to decrease with stellar mass, going from nearly unity at log (M-star/M-circle dot) = 9.0 to close to zero at log (M-star/M-circle dot) = 11.0, in general agreement with previous empirical determinations. These values are the lowest we can obtain for a physically motivated choice of initial mass function and metallicity calibration. We explore alternative choices which produce larger loading factors at all masses, up to order unity at the high-mass end.
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