Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Irregular and Blue Compact Galaxies

Abstract

Dwarf irregular and blue compact galaxies are very interesting objects since they are relatively simple and unevolved. We present new models for the chemical evolution of these galaxies by assuming different regimes of star formation (bursting and continuous) and different kinds of galactic winds (normal and metal-enhanced). Our results show that in order to reproduce all the properties of these galaxies, including the spread in the chemical abundances, the star formation should have proceeded in bursts and the number of bursts should be not larger than 10 in each galaxy, and that metal-enhanced galactic winds are required. A metal-enhanced wind efficiency increasing with galactic mass can by itself reproduce the observed mass-metallicity relation although also an increasing efficiency of star formation and/or number and/or duration of bursts can equally well reproduce such a relation. Metal enhanced winds together with an increasing amount of star formation with galactic mass are required to explain most of the properties of these galaxies. Normal galactic winds, where all the gas is lost at the same rate, do not reproduce the features of these galaxies. We suggest that these galaxies should have suffered a different number of bursts varying from 2 to 10 and that the efficiency of metal-enhanced winds should have been not too high (${\lambda }_{mw}\sim 1$). We predict for these galaxies present time Type Ia SN rates from 0.00084 and 0.0023 per century. Finally, by comparing the abundance patterns of Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ objects with our models we conclude that they are very likely the progenitors of the present day dwarf irregulars. (abridged)

21 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A

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