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Progenitor-mass-dependent yields amplify intrinsic scatter in dwarf-galaxy elemental abundance ratios

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04901
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Abstract

We explore the effect of including progenitor mass- and metallicity-dependent yields, supernova rates and energetics on variations in elemental abundance ratios (particularly [α/Fe]) in dwarf galaxies. To understand how the scatter and overall trends in [α/Fe] are affected by including variable metal yields from a discretely sampled initial mass function, we run FIRE simulations of a dwarf galaxy (M★(z = 0) ∼ 106 M☉) using nucleosynthetic yields from the NuGrid data base that depend on the stellar progenitor mass and metallicity. While NuGrid exhibits lower aggregate α-element production than default FIRE yields, we find that its explicit mass dependence, even when including turbulent metal diffusion, substantially widens the intrinsic scatter in the simulated [Fe/H]-[α/Fe] – a phenomenon visible in some observations of dwarf galaxies.

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