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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29097
Title: AGN feedback and the origin of the α enhancement in early-type galaxies - insights from the GAEA model
Authors: DE LUCIA, GABRIELLA 
FONTANOT, Fabio 
Hirschmann, Michaela
Issue Date: 2017
Journal: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 
Number: 466
Issue: 1
First Page: L88
Abstract: We take advantage of our recently published model for GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) to study the origin of the observed correlation between [α/Fe] and galaxy stellar mass. In particular, we analyse the role of radio-mode active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback, which recent work has identified as a crucial ingredient to reproduce observations. In GAEA, this process introduces the observed trend of star formation histories extending over shorter time-scales for more massive galaxies, but does not provide a sufficient condition to reproduce the observed α enhancements of massive galaxies. In the framework of our model, this is possible only by assuming that any residual star formation is truncated for galaxies more massive than 10<SUP>10.5</SUP> M<SUB>☉</SUB>. This results, however, in even shorter star formation time-scales for the most massive galaxies, which translate in total stellar metallicities significantly lower than observed. Our results demonstrate that (I) trends of [α/Fe] ratios cannot be simply converted into relative time-scale indicators; and (II) AGN feedback cannot explain alone the positive correlation between [α/Fe] and galaxy mass/velocity dispersion. Reproducing simultaneously the mass-metallicity relation and the α enhancements observed pose a challenge for hierarchical models, unless more exotic solutions are adopted such as metal-rich winds or a variable initial mass function.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29097
URL: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/466/1/L88/2638361
ISSN: 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw242
Bibcode ADS: 2017MNRAS.466L..88D
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