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A Census of Sub-kiloparsec Resolution Metallicity Gradients in Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon from HST Slitless Spectroscopy

  • Authors: Xin Wang, Tucker A. Jones, Tommaso Treu, Emanuele Daddi, Gabriel B. Brammer, Keren Sharon, Takahiro Morishita, Louis E. Abramson, James W. Colbert, Alaina L. Henry, Philip F. Hopkins, Matthew A. Malkan, Kasper B. Schmidt, Harry I. Teplitz, and Benedetta Vulcani

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 900 183.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Our custom technique of obtaining pure ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ λ5008 maps combined from multiple orients of grism exposures. Top, from left to right: color-composite image of object MACS 0416–ID 00955 (a z ∼ 2 dwarf galaxy with ﹩{M}_{* }﹩ ≃ 108 ﹩{M}_{\odot }﹩), its ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ map before deblending the ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ doublets, its pure ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ λ5008 map clean from the partial contamination of ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ λ4960 at two orients (PA164 and PA247), and the significance of the difference between these two ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ maps. The significance is expressed as the flux differences divided by the corresponding flux uncertainties (i.e., σ) of ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩ λ5008 in each spatial pixel. Middle and bottom: 2D contamination and continuum-subtracted G141 spectra of this dwarf galaxy at two orients (PA164 and PA274) separately. Note that these 2D traces are basically cutouts from the continuum-subtracted G141 spectra presented in Figure 2. Due to the limited spectral resolutions of HST grisms and extended source morphology, fluxes of ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩λ4960 are blended into ﹩[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm\small{III}}]﹩λ5008 and Hβ in a spatially inhomogeneous fashion, specific to the light dispersion direction at individual orients.

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