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标题：He abundances in disc galaxies
其他标题：I. Predictions from cosmological chemodynamical simulations
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作者：F. Vincenzo ; A. Miglio ; C. Kobayashi 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2019
卷号：630
页码：1-12
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/201935886
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：We investigate how the stellar and gas-phase He abundances evolve as a function of time within simulated star-forming disc galaxies with different star formation histories. We make use of a cosmological chemodynamical simulation for galaxy formation and evolution, which includes star formation as well as energy and chemical enrichment feedback from asymptotic giant branch stars, core-collapse supernovae, and Type Ia supernovae. The predicted relations between the He mass fraction,Y, and the metallicity,Z, in the interstellar medium of our simulated disc galaxies depend on the galaxy star formation history. In particular, dY/dZis not constant and evolves as a function of time, depending on the specific chemical element that we choose to traceZ; in particular, dY/dXOand dY/dXCincrease as a function of time, whereas dY/dXNdecreases. In the gas-phase, we find negative radial gradients ofY, due to the inside-out growth of our simulated galaxy discs as a function of time; this gives rise to longer chemical enrichment timescales in the outer galaxy regions, where we find lower average values forYandZ. Finally, by means of chemical-evolution models, in the galactic bulge and inner disc, we predict steeperYvs. age relations at highZthan in the outer galaxy regions. We conclude that for calibrating the assumedY − Zrelation in stellar models, C, N, and C+N are better proxies for the metallicity than O because they show steeper and less scattered relations.
关键词：engalaxies: abundancesgalaxies: evolutionISM: abundancesstars: abundanceshydrodynamics