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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Année : 2021

Probing possible effects of circumgalactic media on the metal content of galaxies through the mass-metallicity relationship

Sai Zhai
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Jianhang Chen
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Longji Bing
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Yanmei Chen
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Xiaoling Yu
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Songlin Li
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Résumé

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) connects the gas between the interstellar medium and the intergalactic medium, which plays an important role in galaxy evolution. We use the stellar mass- metallicity relationship to investigate whether sharing the CGM will affect the distribution of metals in galaxy pairs. The optical emission lines from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release are used to measure the gas-phase metallicity. We find that there is no significant difference in the distribution of the metallicity difference between two members in star forming- star forming pairs (\rm Δ log(O/H)_diff), metallicity offset from the best-fitting stellar mass-metallicity relationship of galaxies in pairs (\rm Δ log(O/H)_MS), as compared to 'fake' pairs. By looking at and as a function of the star formation rate (SFR), specific SFR, and stellar mass ratio, no difference is seen between galaxies in pairs and control galaxies. From our results, the share of the CGM may not play an important role in shaping the evolution of metal contents of galaxies.

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hal-03585379 , version 1 (23-02-2022)

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Sai Zhai, Yong Shi, Jianhang Chen, Longji Bing, Yanmei Chen, et al.. Probing possible effects of circumgalactic media on the metal content of galaxies through the mass-metallicity relationship. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2021, 504 (2), pp.1959-1968. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stab1017⟩. ⟨hal-03585379⟩
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