The MAGPI Survey: forward modelled gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies at $z\sim 0.3$
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| author | Mai, Yifan Croom, Scott M. Wisnioski, Emily Battisti, Andrew J. Mendel, J. Trevor Mun, Marcie Foster, Caroline Harborne, Katherine E. Lagos, Claudia D. P. Breda, Iris Gao, Tianmu Grasha, Kathryn Mukherjee, Tamal Poci, Adriano Remus, Rhea-Silvia Sharda, Piyush Sweet, Sarah M. Thater, Sabine Valenzuela, Lucas M. van de Ven, Glenn Zafar, Tayyaba Ziegler, Bodo |
| author_facet | Mai, Yifan Croom, Scott M. Wisnioski, Emily Battisti, Andrew J. Mendel, J. Trevor Mun, Marcie Foster, Caroline Harborne, Katherine E. Lagos, Claudia D. P. Breda, Iris Gao, Tianmu Grasha, Kathryn Mukherjee, Tamal Poci, Adriano Remus, Rhea-Silvia Sharda, Piyush Sweet, Sarah M. Thater, Sabine Valenzuela, Lucas M. van de Ven, Glenn Zafar, Tayyaba Ziegler, Bodo |
| contents | We measure the seeing-deconvolved gas-phase metallicity gradients of 70 star-forming galaxies at $z\sim 0.3$ from the MAGPI survey and investigate their relationship with galaxy properties to understand the mechanisms that influence the distribution of metals and shape the evolution of the galaxies. We use a Bayesian modelling technique, Blobby3D, which accounts for seeing effects (beam smearing) and can model the substructures of the flux distribution. The median metallicity gradient of our sample is $\nabla \mathrm{[O/H]}=-0.013^{+0.059}_{-0.033}$ dex/kpc. Among the galaxies in our sample, 32.9% have negative metallicity gradients (2$σ$ significance), 10.0% have positive gradients and 57.1% have flat gradients. The $\nabla \mathrm{[O/H]}$-$M_*$ relation of the MAGPI galaxies generally agrees with theoretical predictions, where a combination of stellar feedback, gas transport, and accretion shapes the metallicity profile, with the dominant processes varying with galaxy mass. We find a positive correlation between $\nabla \mathrm{[O/H]}$ and gas velocity dispersion ($r=0.36$), indicating that stronger gas turbulence is associated with flatter or inverted metallicity gradients, likely due to enhanced gas mixing. Additionally, smaller galaxies tend to have flatter or positive gradients, suggesting that metal dilution by gas accretion or removal via feedback-driven winds may outweigh metal enrichment in small galaxies. |
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| spellingShingle | The MAGPI Survey: forward modelled gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies at $z\sim 0.3$ Mai, Yifan Croom, Scott M. Wisnioski, Emily Battisti, Andrew J. Mendel, J. Trevor Mun, Marcie Foster, Caroline Harborne, Katherine E. Lagos, Claudia D. P. Breda, Iris Gao, Tianmu Grasha, Kathryn Mukherjee, Tamal Poci, Adriano Remus, Rhea-Silvia Sharda, Piyush Sweet, Sarah M. Thater, Sabine Valenzuela, Lucas M. van de Ven, Glenn Zafar, Tayyaba Ziegler, Bodo Astrophysics of Galaxies We measure the seeing-deconvolved gas-phase metallicity gradients of 70 star-forming galaxies at $z\sim 0.3$ from the MAGPI survey and investigate their relationship with galaxy properties to understand the mechanisms that influence the distribution of metals and shape the evolution of the galaxies. We use a Bayesian modelling technique, Blobby3D, which accounts for seeing effects (beam smearing) and can model the substructures of the flux distribution. The median metallicity gradient of our sample is $\nabla \mathrm{[O/H]}=-0.013^{+0.059}_{-0.033}$ dex/kpc. Among the galaxies in our sample, 32.9% have negative metallicity gradients (2$σ$ significance), 10.0% have positive gradients and 57.1% have flat gradients. The $\nabla \mathrm{[O/H]}$-$M_*$ relation of the MAGPI galaxies generally agrees with theoretical predictions, where a combination of stellar feedback, gas transport, and accretion shapes the metallicity profile, with the dominant processes varying with galaxy mass. We find a positive correlation between $\nabla \mathrm{[O/H]}$ and gas velocity dispersion ($r=0.36$), indicating that stronger gas turbulence is associated with flatter or inverted metallicity gradients, likely due to enhanced gas mixing. Additionally, smaller galaxies tend to have flatter or positive gradients, suggesting that metal dilution by gas accretion or removal via feedback-driven winds may outweigh metal enrichment in small galaxies. |
| title | The MAGPI Survey: forward modelled gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies at $z\sim 0.3$ |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08112 |