{"title":"A tight N/O–potential relation in star-forming galaxies","authors":"N. Boardman, Vivienne Wild, N. V. Asari","doi":"10.1093/mnrasl/slae071","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n We report a significantly tighter trend between gaseous N/O and M*/Re (a proxy for gravitational potential) than has previously been reported between gaseous metallicity and M*/Re, for star-forming galaxies in the MaNGA survey. We argue this result to be a consequence of deeper potential wells conferring greater resistance to metal outflows while also being associated with earlier star-formation histories, combined with N/O being comparatively unaffected by metal-poor inflows. The potential–N/O relation thus appears to be both more resistant to short-timescale baryonic processes and also more reflective of a galaxy’s chemical evolution state, when compared to previously-considered relations.","PeriodicalId":18951,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters","volume":"42 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slae071","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Earth and Planetary Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We report a significantly tighter trend between gaseous N/O and M*/Re (a proxy for gravitational potential) than has previously been reported between gaseous metallicity and M*/Re, for star-forming galaxies in the MaNGA survey. We argue this result to be a consequence of deeper potential wells conferring greater resistance to metal outflows while also being associated with earlier star-formation histories, combined with N/O being comparatively unaffected by metal-poor inflows. The potential–N/O relation thus appears to be both more resistant to short-timescale baryonic processes and also more reflective of a galaxy’s chemical evolution state, when compared to previously-considered relations.
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