Science-advisor
REGISTER info/FAQ
Login
username
password
     
forgot password?
register here
 
Research articles
  search articles
  reviews guidelines
  reviews
  articles index
My Pages
my alerts
  my messages
  my reviews
  my favorites
 
 
Stat
Members: 3645
Articles: 2'504'928
Articles rated: 2609

26 April 2024
 
  » arxiv » 1304.2158

 Article overview



The Mass-Metallicity relation explored with CALIFA: I. Is there a dependence on the star formation rate?
S. F. Sanchez ; F. F. Rosales-Ortega ; B. Jungwiert ; J. Iglesias-Paramo1 ; J. M. Vilchez ; R. A. Marino ; C. J. Walcher ; B. Husemann ; D. Mast ; A. Monreal-Ibero ; R. Cid Fernandes ; E. Perez ; R. Gonzalez Delgado ; R. Garcia-Benito ; L. Galbany ; G. van de Ven ; K. Jahnke ; H. Flores ; J. Bland-Hawthorn ; A. R. Lopez-Sánchez ; V. Stanishev ; D. Miralles-Caballero ; A. I. Diaz ; P. Sanchez-Blazquez ; M. Molla ; A. Gallazzi1 ; P. Papaderos ; J. M. Gomes ; N. Gruel ; I. Pérez ; T. Ruiz-Lara ; E. Florido ; A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres ; J. Mendez-Abreu ; C. Kehrig ; M.M. Roth ; B. Ziegler ; J. Alves ; L. Wisotzki ; D. Kupko ; A. Quirrenbach ; D. Bomans ; CALIFA collaboration ;
Date 8 Apr 2013
AbstractWe present the results on the study of the global and local M-Z relation based on the first data available from the CALIFA survey (150 galaxies). This survey provides integral field spectroscopy of the complete optical extent of each galaxy (up to 2-3 effective radii), with enough resolution to separate individual HII regions and/or aggregations. Nearly $sim$3000 individual HII regions have been detected. The spectra cover the wavelength range between [OII]3727 and [SII]6731, with a sufficient signal-to-noise to derive the oxygen abundance and star-formation rate associated with each region. In addition, we have computed the integrated and spatially resolved stellar masses (and surface densities), based on SDSS photometric data. We explore the relations between the stellar mass, oxygen abundance and star-formation rate using this dataset.
We derive a tight relation between the integrated stellar mass and the gas-phase abundance, with a dispersion smaller than the one already reported in the literature ($sigma_{Delta{ m log(O/H)}}=$0.07 dex). Indeed, this dispersion is only slightly larger than the typical error derived for our oxygen abundances. However, we do not find any secondary relation with the star-formation rate, other than the one induced due to the primary relation of this quantity with the stellar mass. We confirm the result using the $sim$3000 individual HII regions, for the corresponding local relations.
Our results agree with the scenario in which gas recycling in galaxies, both locally and globally, is much faster than other typical timescales, like that of gas accretion by inflow and/or metal loss due to outflows. In essence, late-type/disk dominated galaxies seem to be in a quasi-steady situation, with a behavior similar to the one expected from an instantaneous recycling/closed-box model.
Source arXiv, 1304.2158
Services Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites   
 
Visitor rating: did you like this article? no 1   2   3   4   5   yes

No review found.
 Did you like this article?

This article or document is ...
important:
of broad interest:
readable:
new:
correct:
Global appreciation:

  Note: answers to reviews or questions about the article must be posted in the forum section.
Authors are not allowed to review their own article. They can use the forum section.

browser Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)






ScienXe.org
» my Online CV
» Free


News, job offers and information for researchers and scientists:
home  |  contact  |  terms of use  |  sitemap
Copyright © 2005-2024 - Scimetrica