Shape of the oxygen abundance profiles in CALIFA face-on spiral galaxies
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Sánchez-Menguiano, L.; Sánchez, S. F.; Pérez, I.; Garcia-Benito, R.; Husemann, B.; Mast, D.; Mendoza, A.; Ruiz-Lara, T.; Ascasibar Sequeiros, Yago; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Cavichia, O.; Díaz Beltrán, Ángeles Isabel; Florido, E.; Galbany, L.; Gónzalez Delgado, R.M.; Kehrig, C.; Marino, R. A.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Méndez-Abreu, Jairo; Mollá, M.; Del Olmo, A.; Pérez, E.; Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia; Stanishev, V.; Walcher, C.J.; López-Sánchez, A. R.; The Califa collaborationEntity
UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
EDP SciencesDate
2015-12-12Citation
10.1051/0004-6361/201527450
Astronomy & Astrophysics 587 (2016): A70
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0004-6361 (print); 1432-0746 (online)DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201527450Funded by
We acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) via grant AYA2012-31935, and from the “Junta de Andalucía” local government through the FQM-108 project. We also acknowledge support to the ConaCyt funding program 180125. Y.A. acknowledges fi- nantial support from the Ramón y Cajal programme (RyC-2011-09461). Y.A. and A.I.D. acknowledge support from the project AYA2013-47742-C4-3-P from the Spanish MINECO, as well as the “Study of Emission-Line Galaxies with Integral-Field Spectroscopy” (SELGIFS) programme, funded by the EU (FP7- PEOPLE-2013-IRSES-612701). Support for L.G. is provided by the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism’s Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS. LG acknowledges support by CONICYT through FONDECYT grant 3140566. R.M.G.D. acknowledges support from the Spanish grant AYA2014-57490-P, and from the “Junta de Andalucía” P12-FQM2828 project. RAM thanks the Spanish program of International Campus of Excellence Moncloa (CEI). IM and A.d.O. acknowledge support from the Spanish MINECO grant AYA2013-42227P. JMA acknowledges support from the European Research Council Starting Grant (SEDmorph, P.I. V. Wild). Support for MM has been provided by DGICYT grant AYA2013-47742-C4-4-P. PSB acknowledges support from the Ramón y Cajal programme, grant ATA2010-21322-C03-02 from the Spanish MINECO. CJW acknowledges support through the Marie Curie Career Grant Integration 303912Project
Gobierno de España. RyC-2011-09461; Gobierno de España. AYA2012-31935; Gobierno de España AYA2013-47742-C4-3-P; Gobierno de España AYA2014-57490-P; Gobierno de España AYA2013-42227P; Gobierno de España AYA2013-47742-C4-4-P; Gobierno de España ATA2010-21322-C03-02; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/612701; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/306299; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/303912Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527450Subjects
Abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: spiral; Imaging spectroscopy; Spectroscopic; FísicaNote
Astronomy & Astrophysics 587 (2016): A70 reproduced with permission from Astronomy & AstrophysicsRights
© 2016 ESOAbstract
We measured the gas abundance profiles in a sample of 122 face-on spiral galaxies observed by the CALIFA survey and included all spaxels whose line emission was consistent with star formation. This type of analysis allowed us to improve the statistics with respect to previous studies, and to properly estimate the oxygen distribution across the entire disc to a distance of up to 3-4 disc effective radii (re). We confirm the results obtained from classical H ii region analysis. In addition to the general negative gradient, an outer flattening can be observed in the oxygen abundance radial profile. An inner drop is also found in some cases. There is a common abundance gradient between 0.5 and 2.0 re of αO/H =-0.075 dex/re with a scatter of σ = 0.016 dex/re when normalising the distances to the disc effective radius. By performing a set of Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, we determined that this slope is independent of other galaxy properties, such as morphology, absolute magnitude, and the presence or absence of bars. In particular, barred galaxies do not seem to display shallower gradients, as predicted by numerical simulations. Interestingly, we find that most of thegalaxies in the sample with reliable oxygen abundance values beyond ~2 effective radii (57 galaxies) present a flattening of the abundance gradient in these outer regions. This flattening is not associated with any morphological feature, which suggests that it is a common property of disc galaxies. Finally, we detect a drop or truncation of the abundance in the inner regions of 27 galaxies in the sample; this is only visible for the most massive galaxies
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Google Scholar:Sánchez-Menguiano, L.
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Sánchez, S. F.
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Pérez, I.
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Garcia-Benito, R.
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Husemann, B.
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Mast, D.
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Mendoza, A.
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Ruiz-Lara, T.
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Ascasibar Sequeiros, Yago
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Bland-Hawthorn, J.
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Cavichia, O.
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Díaz Beltrán, Ángeles Isabel
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Florido, E.
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Galbany, L.
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Gónzalez Delgado, R.M.
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Kehrig, C.
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Marino, R. A.
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Márquez, I.
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Masegosa, J.
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Méndez-Abreu, Jairo
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Mollá, M.
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Del Olmo, A.
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Pérez, E.
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Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia
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Stanishev, V.
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Walcher, C.J.
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López-Sánchez, A. R.
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The Califa collaboration
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