P-MaNGA Galaxies: Emission-lines properties - gas ionization and chemical abundances from prototype observations

F. Belfiore; R. Maiolino; K. Bundy; D. Thomas; C. Maraston; D. Wilkinson; S. F. Sánchez; M. Bershady; G. A. Blanc; M. Bothwell; S. L. Cales; L. Coccato; N. Drory; E. Emsellem; H. Fu; J. Gelfand; D. Law; K. Masters; J. Parejko; C. Tremonti; D. Wake; A. Weijmans; R. Yan; T. Xiao; K. Zhang; T. Zheng; D. Bizyaev; K. Kinemuchi; D. Oravetz; A. Simmons

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv296

P-MaNGA Galaxies: Emission-lines properties - gas ionization and chemical abundances from prototype observations

F. Belfiore
, R. Maiolino
, K. Bundy
, D. Thomas
, C. Maraston
, D. Wilkinson
, S. F. Sánchez
, M. Bershady
, G. A. Blanc
, M. Bothwell
, S. L. Cales
, L. Coccato
, N. Drory
, E. Emsellem
, H. Fu
, J. Gelfand
, D. Law
, K. Masters
, J. Parejko
, C. Tremonti

D. Wake, A. Weijmans, R. Yan, T. Xiao, K. Zhang, T. Zheng, D. Bizyaev, K. Kinemuchi, D. Oravetz, A. Simmons

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Abstract

MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is a 6-yr Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) survey that will obtain spatially resolved spectroscopy from 3600 to 10 300Å for a representative sample of over 10 000 nearby galaxies. In this paper, we present the analysis of nebular emission-line properties using observations of 14 galaxies obtained with P-MaNGA, a prototype of the MaNGA instrument. By using spatially resolved diagnostic diagrams, we find extended star formation in galaxies that are centrally dominated by Seyfert/LINER-like emission, which illustrates that galaxy characterizations based on single fibre spectra are necessarily incomplete. We observe extended low ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINER)-like emission (up to 1R_e) in the central regions of three galaxies. We make use of the Hα equivalent width [EW(Hα)] to argue that the observed emission is consistent with ionization from hot evolved stars. We derive stellar population indices and demonstrate a clear correlation between D_n(4000) and EW(Hδ_A) and the position in the ionization diagnostic diagram: resolved galactic regions which are ionized by a Seyfert/LINER-like radiation field are also devoid of recent star formation and host older and/or more metal-rich stellar populations. We also detect extraplanar LINER-like emission in two highly inclined galaxies, and identify it with diffuse ionized gas. We investigate spatially resolved metallicities and find a positive correlation between metallicity and star formation rate surface density. We further study the relation between N/O versus O/H on resolved scales. We find that, at given N/O, regions within individual galaxies are spread towards lower metallicities, deviating from the sequence defined by galactic central regions as traced by Sloan 3-arcsec fibre spectra. We suggest that the observed dispersion can be a tracer for gas flows in galaxies: infalls of pristine gas and/or the effect of a galactic fountain.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	867-900
Number of pages	34
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	449
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv296
State	Published - Feb 23 2015

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Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/K00090X/1, ST/M001156/1, ST/K003119/1, ST/M001172/1
Science and Technology Facilities Council

Keywords

Galaxies: ISM
Galaxies: abundances
Galaxies: active
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: fundamental parameters

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Belfiore, F., Maiolino, R., Bundy, K., Thomas, D., Maraston, C., Wilkinson, D., Sánchez, S. F., Bershady, M., Blanc, G. A., Bothwell, M., Cales, S. L., Coccato, L., Drory, N., Emsellem, E., Fu, H., Gelfand, J., Law, D., Masters, K., Parejko, J., ... Simmons, A. (2015). P-MaNGA Galaxies: Emission-lines properties - gas ionization and chemical abundances from prototype observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(1), 867-900. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv296

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