Статья

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

Jill NaimanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USAAnnalisa PillepichMax-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, GermanyVolker SpringelHeidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35, D-69118 Heidelberg, GermanyE. Ramírez-RuizDepartment of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USAPaul TorreyDepartment of Physics, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAMark VogelsbergerDepartment of Physics, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USARüdiger PakmorHeidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35, D-69118 Heidelberg, GermanyDylan NelsonMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85748, Garching, GermanyFederico MarinacciDepartment of Physics, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USALars HernquistHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USARainer WeinbergerHeidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35, D-69118 Heidelberg, GermanyShy GenelCenter for Computational Astronomy, Simons Foundation, New York 10010, USA

2018en

ABI

Аннотация

The distribution of elements in galaxies provides a wealth of information about their production sites and their subsequent mixing into the interstellar medium. Here we investigate the elemental distributions of stars in the IllustrisTNG simulations. We analyse the abundance ratios of magnesium and europium in Milky Way-like galaxies from the TNG100 simulation (stellar masses log (M⋆/M⊙) ∼ 9.7–11.2). Comparison of observed magnesium and europium for individual stars in the Milky Way with the stellar abundances in our more than 850 Milky Way-like galaxies provides stringent constraints on our chemical evolutionary methods. Here, we use the magnesium-to-iron ratio as a proxy for the effects of our SNII (core-collapse supernovae) and SNIa (Type Ia supernovae) metal return prescription and as a comparison to a variety of galactic observations. The europium-to-iron ratio tracks the rare ejecta from neutron star–neutron star mergers, the assumed primary site of europium production in our models, and is a sensitive probe of the effects of metal diffusion within the gas in our simulations. We find that europium abundances in Milky Way-like galaxies show no correlation with assembly history, present-day galactic properties, and average galactic stellar population age. We reproduce the europium-to-iron spread at low metallicities observed in the Milky Way, and find it is sensitive to gas properties during redshifts z ≈ 2–4. We show that while the overall normalization of [Eu/Fe] is susceptible to resolution and post-processing assumptions, the relatively large spread of [Eu/Fe] at low [Fe/H] when compared to that at high [Fe/H] is quite robust.

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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty618

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