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Paper
Metal-THINGS: gas metallicity gradients in nearby galaxies
2025
Overview
This paper explores the gas metallicity gradients in a sample of 25 nearby galaxies using new Integral Field Spectroscopy observations from the Metal-THINGS survey. We derive and study the resolved diffuse ionised gas content, Baldwin, Phillips and Terlevich diagrams and gas metallicities for our entire sample, at spatial resolutions of 40-300 pc. Gas metallicity gradients are studied as a function of the galaxy's stellar mass, H I gas fraction, diffuse ionised gas content, and using different parametric length scales for normalisation. The metallicity gradients are analysed using Bayesian statistics based on data from the Metal-THINGS survey. Bayesian MCMC models are developed to explore how metallicity gradients vary with a galaxy's mass and how they correlate with properties such as the stellar mass or the atomic gas fraction. For our sample, we find that the metallicity typically decreases with galactic radius, consistent with inside-out galaxy growth. We find a trend dependent on the stellar mass, with a break at log(M_star/M_sun)=9.5, and another between the metallicity gradients and the atomic gas fraction (f_g,HI) of a galaxy at fg,HI=0.75, indicating relatively shallower gradients for lower gas fractions. We find that normalisation using NUV-band effective radii are preferable for galaxies with a higher atomic gas content and lower stellar masses, while r-band radii are better suited for those with lower atomic gas fractions and more massive ones. Our results highlight a strong connection between gas content, stellar mass, and metallicity gradients. The breaks at log(M_star/M_sun)=9.5 and fg,HI=0.75 mark shifts in chemical enrichment behaviour, with low-mass galaxies showing greater sensitivity to gas processes. Overall, this points to gas accretion and removal as key drivers of chemical evolution in low-mass systems.
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Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
