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- W1949589813 abstract "From a large sample of $approx 170,000$ local SDSS galaxies, we find that the Fundamental Metallicity Relation (FMR) has an overabundance of outliers, compared to what would be expected from a Gaussian distribution of residuals, with significantly lower metallicities than predicted from their stellar mass and star formation rate (SFR). This low-metallicity population has lower stellar masses, bimodial specific SFRs with enhanced star formation within the aperture and smaller half-light radii than the general sample, and is hence a physically distinct population. We show that they are consistent with being galaxies that are merging or have recently merged with a satellite galaxy. In this scenario, low-metallicity gas flows in from large radii, diluting the metallicity of star-forming regions and enhancing the specific SFR until the inflowing gas is processed and the metallicity has recovered. We introduce a simple model in which mergers with a mass ratio larger than a minimum dilute the central galaxy's metallicity by an amount that is proportional to the stellar mass ratio for a constant time, and show that it provides an excellent fit to the distribution of FMR residuals. We find the dilution time-scale to be $tau=1.568_{-0.027}^{+0.029}$ Gyr, the average metallicity depression caused by a 1:1 merger to be $alpha=0.2480_{-0.0020}^{+0.0017}$ dex and the minimum mass ratio merger that can be discerned from the intrinsic Gaussian scatter in the FMR to be $xi_text{min}=0.2030_{-0.0095}^{+0.0127}$ (these are statistical errors only). From this we derive that the average metallicity depression caused by a merger with mass ratio between 1:5 and 1:1 is 0.114 dex." @default.
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- W1949589813 date "2015-06-30" @default.
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- W1949589813 title "Merging galaxies produce outliers from the fundamental metallicity relation" @default.
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