Galaxy metallicity scaling relations in the EAGLE simulations

DE ROSSI, MARÍA EMILIA; BOWER, RICHARD G.; FONT, ANDREEA S.; SCHAYE, JOOP; THEUNS, TOM

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Lugar: Londres; Año: 2017

0035-8711

We quantify the correlations between gas-phase and stellar metallicities and global properties of galaxies, such as stellar mass, halo mass, age and gas fraction, in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The slope of the correlation between stellar mass and metallicity of star-forming (SF) gas (M∗ − Z_SF,gas relation) depends somewhat on resolution, with the higher-resolution run reproducing a steeper slope. This simulation predicts a non-zero metallicity evolution, increasing by ≈ 0.5 dex at ∼ 10^9 M_sun since z = 3. The simulated relation between stellar mass, metallicity and star formation rate at z