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The MOSDEF Survey: A Stellar Mass–SFR–Metallicity Relation Exists at z ∼ 2.3

  • Authors: Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Mariska Kriek, William R. Freeman, Naveen A. Reddy, Brian Siana, Alison L. Coil, Bahram Mobasher, Romeel Davé, Irene Shivaei, Mojegan Azadi, Sedona H. Price, Gene Leung, Tara Fetherholf, Laura de Groot, Tom Zick, Francesca M. Fornasini, and Guillermo Barro

2018 The Astrophysical Journal 858 99.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Emission-line ratios O3N2, N2, N2O2, and O32 versus ﹩{M}_{* }﹩ for the z ∼ 2.3 and z ∼ 0 comparison samples. The left y-axis displays the emission-line ratio values, while the right y-axis displays the translation into metallicity according to Equations (7), (8), (11), and (10). All y-axes are oriented such that metallicity increases upwards, and span the same range in metallicity. The z ∼ 2.3 galaxies with SFR measurements are shown as blue circles when all of the required emission lines are detected for each line ratio, while black arrows display 3σ limits when one or more of the required lines is not detected. Stacks of both detections and non-detections in bins of ﹩{M}_{* }﹩ are indicated by black squares. The red dashed line is the best-fit linear relation to the stacks in each panel, with the best-fit parameters given in Table 2. Gray squares show the z ∼ 0 ﹩{M}_{* }﹩ stacks of Andrews & Martini (2013) prior to correction for DIG contamination, while green squares show the same stacks after correcting for contamination from DIG using the models of Sanders et al. (2017).

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