[{"publication_status":"published","date_created":"2022-07-14T12:49:47Z","article_processing_charge":"No","title":"Star-forming galaxies are predicted to lie on a fundamental plane of mass, star formation rate, and α-enhancement","intvolume":"       479","_id":"11584","scopus_import":"1","author":[{"first_name":"Jorryt J","last_name":"Matthee","orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J","id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720"},{"first_name":"Joop","last_name":"Schaye","full_name":"Schaye, Joop"}],"issue":"1","publisher":"Oxford University Press","article_type":"original","page":"L34 - L39","quality_controlled":"1","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.1093/mnrasl/sly093","day":"01","abstract":[{"text":"Observations show that star-forming galaxies reside on a tight 3D plane between mass, gas-phase metallicity, and star formation rate (SFR), which can be explained by the interplay between metal-poor gas inflows, SFR and outflows. However, different metals are released on different time-scales, which may affect the slope of this relation. Here, we use central, star-forming galaxies with Mstar = 109.0–10.5 M⊙ from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation to examine 3D relations between mass, SFR, and chemical enrichment using absolute and relative C, N, O, and Fe abundances. We show that the scatter is smaller when gas-phase α-enhancement is used rather than metallicity. A similar plane also exists for stellar α-enhancement, implying that present-day specific SFRs are correlated with long time-scale star formation histories. Between z = 0 and 1, the α-enhancement plane is even more insensitive to redshift than the plane using metallicity. However, it evolves at z > 1 due to lagging iron yields. At fixed mass, galaxies with higher SFRs have star formation histories shifted towards late times, are more α-enhanced, and this α-enhancement increases with redshift as observed. These findings suggest that relations between physical properties inferred from observations may be affected by systematic variations in α-enhancements.","lang":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2022-08-19T08:35:45Z","year":"2018","citation":{"short":"J.J. Matthee, J. Schaye, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 479 (2018) L34–L39.","mla":"Matthee, Jorryt J., and Joop Schaye. “Star-Forming Galaxies Are Predicted to Lie on a Fundamental Plane of Mass, Star Formation Rate, and α-Enhancement.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters</i>, vol. 479, no. 1, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. L34–39, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly093\">10.1093/mnrasl/sly093</a>.","ista":"Matthee JJ, Schaye J. 2018. Star-forming galaxies are predicted to lie on a fundamental plane of mass, star formation rate, and α-enhancement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 479(1), L34–L39.","ama":"Matthee JJ, Schaye J. Star-forming galaxies are predicted to lie on a fundamental plane of mass, star formation rate, and α-enhancement. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters</i>. 2018;479(1):L34-L39. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly093\">10.1093/mnrasl/sly093</a>","apa":"Matthee, J. J., &#38; Schaye, J. (2018). Star-forming galaxies are predicted to lie on a fundamental plane of mass, star formation rate, and α-enhancement. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly093\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly093</a>","chicago":"Matthee, Jorryt J, and Joop Schaye. “Star-Forming Galaxies Are Predicted to Lie on a Fundamental Plane of Mass, Star Formation Rate, and α-Enhancement.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters</i>. Oxford University Press, 2018. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly093\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly093</a>.","ieee":"J. J. Matthee and J. Schaye, “Star-forming galaxies are predicted to lie on a fundamental plane of mass, star formation rate, and α-enhancement,” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters</i>, vol. 479, no. 1. Oxford University Press, pp. L34–L39, 2018."},"external_id":{"arxiv":["1802.06786"]},"acknowledgement":"We thank the anonymous referee for their constructive comments. JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens PhD fellowship from Leiden University. We thank Jarle Brinchmann, Rob Crain and David Sobral for discussions. We acknowledge the use of the TOPCAT software (Taylor 2013) for assisting in rapid exploration of multidimensional data sets and the use of PYTHON and its NUMPY, MATPLOTLIB, and PANDAS packages.","volume":479,"extern":"1","oa_version":"Preprint","month":"09","publication":"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"keyword":["Space and Planetary Science","Astronomy and Astrophysics","galaxies: abundances","galaxies: evolution","galaxies: formation","galaxies: star formation"],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1745-3933"],"issn":["1745-3925"]},"oa":1,"date_published":"2018-09-01T00:00:00Z","type":"journal_article","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06786","open_access":"1"}],"status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"quality_controlled":"1","page":"2695-2704","publisher":"Oxford University Press","article_type":"original","scopus_import":"1","_id":"11582","issue":"3","author":[{"last_name":"Stott","first_name":"John P.","full_name":"Stott, John P."},{"first_name":"David","last_name":"Sobral","full_name":"Sobral, David"},{"full_name":"Swinbank, A. M.","first_name":"A. M.","last_name":"Swinbank"},{"first_name":"Ian","last_name":"Smail","full_name":"Smail, Ian"},{"last_name":"Bower","first_name":"Richard","full_name":"Bower, Richard"},{"first_name":"Philip N.","last_name":"Best","full_name":"Best, Philip N."},{"first_name":"Ray M.","last_name":"Sharples","full_name":"Sharples, Ray M."},{"full_name":"Geach, James E.","first_name":"James E.","last_name":"Geach"},{"id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720","orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J","first_name":"Jorryt J","last_name":"Matthee"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","date_created":"2022-07-14T12:16:10Z","publication_status":"published","intvolume":"       443","title":"A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS","acknowledgement":"First, we acknowledge the referee for their comments, which have improved the clarity of this paper. JPS and IRS acknowledge support from STFC (ST/I001573/1). IRS also acknowledges support from the ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL and a Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award. DS acknowledges financial support from NWO through a Veni fellowship and from FCT through the award of an FCT-IF starting grant. PNB acknowledges STFC for financial support.","volume":443,"extern":"1","citation":{"ama":"Stott JP, Sobral D, Swinbank AM, et al. A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. 2014;443(3):2695-2704. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343\">10.1093/mnras/stu1343</a>","apa":"Stott, J. P., Sobral, D., Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Bower, R., Best, P. N., … Matthee, J. J. (2014). A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343</a>","ieee":"J. P. Stott <i>et al.</i>, “A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS,” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, vol. 443, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 2695–2704, 2014.","chicago":"Stott, John P., David Sobral, A. M. Swinbank, Ian Smail, Richard Bower, Philip N. Best, Ray M. Sharples, James E. Geach, and Jorryt J Matthee. “A Relationship between Specific Star Formation Rate and Metallicity Gradient within z ∼ 1 Galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. Oxford University Press, 2014. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343</a>.","short":"J.P. Stott, D. Sobral, A.M. Swinbank, I. Smail, R. Bower, P.N. Best, R.M. Sharples, J.E. Geach, J.J. Matthee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 443 (2014) 2695–2704.","mla":"Stott, John P., et al. “A Relationship between Specific Star Formation Rate and Metallicity Gradient within z ∼ 1 Galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, vol. 443, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 2695–704, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343\">10.1093/mnras/stu1343</a>.","ista":"Stott JP, Sobral D, Swinbank AM, Smail I, Bower R, Best PN, Sharples RM, Geach JE, Matthee JJ. 2014. A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 443(3), 2695–2704."},"year":"2014","date_updated":"2022-08-19T08:27:25Z","external_id":{"arxiv":["1407.1047"]},"day":"21","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.1093/mnras/stu1343","abstract":[{"text":"We have observed a sample of typical z ∼ 1 star-forming galaxies, selected from the HiZELS survey, with the new K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) near-infrared, multi-integral field unit instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), in order to obtain their dynamics and metallicity gradients. The majority of our galaxies have a metallicity gradient consistent with being flat or negative (i.e. higher metallicity cores than outskirts). Intriguingly, we find a trend between metallicity gradient and specific star formation rate (sSFR), such that galaxies with a high sSFR tend to have relatively metal poor centres, a result which is strengthened when combined with data sets from the literature. This result appears to explain the discrepancies reported between different high-redshift studies and varying claims for evolution. From a galaxy evolution perspective, the trend we see would mean that a galaxy's sSFR is governed by the amount of metal-poor gas that can be funnelled into its core, triggered either by merging or through efficient accretion. In fact, merging may play a significant role as it is the starburst galaxies at all epochs, which have the more positive metallicity gradients. Our results may help to explain the origin of the fundamental metallicity relation, in which galaxies at a fixed mass are observed to have lower metallicities at higher star formation rates, especially if the metallicity is measured in an aperture encompassing only the central regions of the galaxy. Finally, we note that this study demonstrates the power of KMOS as an efficient instrument for large-scale resolved galaxy surveys.","lang":"eng"}],"keyword":["Space and Planetary Science","Astronomy and Astrophysics","galaxies: abundances","galaxies: evolution","galaxies: kinematics and dynamics"],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publication":"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society","oa_version":"Preprint","month":"09","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1047"}],"status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","type":"journal_article","date_published":"2014-09-21T00:00:00Z","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1365-2966"],"issn":["0035-8711"]},"oa":1}]