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The oxygen abundance gradients in the gas discs of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation

Tissera, PB, Rosas-Guevara, Y, Bower, RG, Crain, RA, Lagos, CDP, Schaller, M, Schaye, J and Theuns, T (2018) The oxygen abundance gradients in the gas discs of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482 (2). pp. 2208-2221. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We use the EAGLE simulations to study the oxygen abundance gradients of gas discs in galaxies within the stellar mass range [109.5, 1010.8] ∼M at z = 0. The estimated median oxygen gradient is −0.011 ± 0.002 dex kpc−1, which is shallower than observed. No clear trend between simulated disc oxygen gradient and galaxy stellar mass is found when all galaxies are considered. However, the oxygen gradient shows a clear correlation with gas disc size so that shallower abundance slopes are found for increasing gas disc sizes. Positive oxygen gradients are detected for ≈40 per cent of the analysed gas discs, with a slight higher frequency in low-mass galaxies. Galaxies that have quiet merger histories show a positive correlation between oxygen gradient and stellar mass, so that more massive galaxies tend to have shallowermetallicity gradients. At high stellarmass, there is a larger fraction of rotationaldominated galaxies in low-density regions. At low stellar mass, non-merger galaxies show a large variety of oxygen gradients and morphologies. The normalization of the disc oxygen gradients in non-merger galaxies by the effective radius removes the trend with stellar mass. Conversely, galaxies that experienced mergers show a weak relation between oxygen gradient and stellar mass. Additionally, the analysed EAGLE discs show no clear dependence of the oxygen gradients on local environment, in agreement with current observational findings.

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Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Date Deposited: 16 Jan 2019 11:26
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2021 02:03
DOI or ID number: 10.1093/mnras/sty2817
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9955
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