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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPublications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Vol/bind73
Udgave nummer6
Sider (fra-til)1631-1637
Antal sider7
ISSN0004-6264
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 dec. 2021

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