期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 491, 期 1, 页码 1427-1455出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3032
关键词
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: high-redshift
资金
- W.M. Keck Foundation
- NSF AAG [AST-1312780, 1312547, 1312764, 1313171]
- NASA through the Space Telescope Science Institute [AR13907]
- NASA ADAP program [NNX16AF54G]
- NASA [15-WFIRST15-0004]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1313171] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [NNX16AF54G, 905535] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We present detections of [O III] lambda 4363 and direct-method metallicities for star-forming galaxies at z = 1.7-3.6. We combine new measurements from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey with literature sources to construct a sample of 18 galaxies with direct-method metallicities at z > 1, spanning 7.5 < 12+log(O/H) < 8.2 and log(M-*/M-circle dot) = 7-10. We find that strong-line calibrations based on local analogues of high-redshift galaxies reliably reproduce the metallicity of the z > 1 sample on average. We construct the first mass-metallicity relation at z > 1 based purely on direct-method O/H, finding a slope that is consistent with strong-line results. Direct-method O/H evolves by less than or similar to 0.1 dex at fixed M-* and star formation rate from z similar to 0 to 2.2. We employ photoionization models to constrain the ionization parameter and ionizing spectrum in the high-redshift sample. Stellar models with supersolar O/Fe and binary evolution of massive stars are required to reproduce the observed strong-line ratios. We find that the z > 1 sample falls on the z similar to 0 relation between ionization parameter and O/H, suggesting no evolution of this relation from z similar to 0 to z similar to 2. These results suggest that the offset of the strong-line ratios of this sample from local excitation sequences is driven primarily by a harder ionizing spectrum at fixed nebular metallicity compared to what is typical at z similar to 0, naturally explained by supersolar O/Fe at high redshift caused by rapid formation time-scales. Given the extreme nature of our z > 1 sample, the implications for representative z similar to 2 galaxy samples at similar to 10(10) M-circle dot are unclear, but similarities to z > 6 galaxies suggest that these conclusions can be extended to galaxies in the epoch of reionization.
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