Prgomet, Mateo;
Rey, Martin P;
Andersson, Eric P;
Otero, Alvaro Segovia;
Agertz, Oscar;
Renaud, Florent;
Pontzen, Andrew;
(2022)
EDGE: The sensitivity of ultra-faint dwarfs to a metallicity-dependent initial mass function.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 513
(2)
pp. 2326-2334.
10.1093/mnras/stac1074.
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Abstract
Motivated by the observed bottom-light initial mass function (IMF) in faint dwarfs, we study how a metallicity-dependent IMF affects the feedback budget and observables of an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy. We model the evolution of a low-mass (≈8×108M⊙) dark matter halo with cosmological, zoomed hydrodynamical simulations capable of resolving individual supernovae explosions, which we complement with an empirically motivated subgrid prescription for systematic IMF variations. In this framework, at the low gas metallicities typical of faint dwarfs, the IMF of newborn stellar populations becomes top-heavy, increasing the efficiency of supernova and photoionization feedback in regulating star formation. This results in a 100-fold reduction of the final stellar mass of the dwarf compared to a canonical IMF, at fixed dynamical mass. The increase in the feedback budget is none the less met by increased metal production from more numerous massive stars, leading to nearly constant iron content at z = 0. A metallicity-dependent IMF therefore provides a mechanism to produce low-mass (M⋆∼103M⊙), yet enriched ([Fe/H]≈−2) field dwarf galaxies, thus opening a self-consistent avenue to populate the plateau in [Fe/H] at the faintest end of the mass–metallicity relation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | EDGE: The sensitivity of ultra-faint dwarfs to a metallicity-dependent initial mass function |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac1074 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1074 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, methods: numerical, galaxies: dwarf, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: formation, CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE, GALAXY FORMATION, STAR-FORMATION, STELLAR FEEDBACK, COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS, SYSTEMATIC VARIATION, SATELLITE, IMF, ORIGIN, HYDRODYNAMICS |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149915 |
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