Subaru/FOCAS IFU revealed the metallicity gradient of a local extremely metal-poor galaxy

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  • Yuri Kashiwagi
  • Akio K. Inoue
  • Yuki Isobe
  • Kimihiko Nakajima
  • Masami Ouchi
  • Shinobu Ozaki
  • Seiji Fujimoto
  • Yoshiaki Ono
  • Takashi Kojima

We present the first measurement of the metallicity gradient in extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs). With Subaru/Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS) Integral Field Unit (IFU), we have observed a nearby, low-mass EMPG, HSC J1631+4426, whose oxygen abundance and stellar mass are known to be 12 + log (O/H) = 6.9 and log(10)(M-*/M-circle dot) = 5.8, respectively. The measured metallicity gradient is -0.36 +/- 0.04 dex kpc(-1) corresponding to -0.049 +/- 0.006 dex R-e(-1) for the continuum effective radius of R-e = 0.14 kpc. Our observation has successfully demonstrated that three-dimensional spectroscopy with 8 m-class telescopes is powerful enough to reveal the metallicity distribution in local EMPGs, providing precious information on the baryon cycle in local analogs of primordial galaxies in the early Universe.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPublications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Volume73
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)1631-1637
Number of pages7
ISSN0004-6264
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2021

    Research areas

  • galaxies: abundances, galaxies: dwarf, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: individual (HSC J1631+4426), galaxies: ISM, ABUNDANCE GRADIENTS, MASS-METALLICITY, DWARF GALAXIES, GAS, DISCOVERY, EVOLUTION

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