The Relationship Between Galaxy ISM and Circumgalactic Gas Metallicities

Abstract

We present ISM and CGM metallicities for 25 absorption systems associated with isolated star-forming galaxies (<z>=0.28) with 9.4<log(M*/Msun)<10.9 and with absorption detected within 200kpc. Galaxy ISM metallicities were measured using Ha/[NII] emission lines from Keck/ESI spectra. CGM single-phase low-ionization metallicities were modeled using MCMC and Cloudy analysis of absorption from HST/COS and Keck/HIRES or VLT/UVES quasar spectra. We find that the star-forming galaxy ISM metallicities follow the observed stellar mass metallicity relation (scatter 0.19dex). CGM metallicity shows no dependence with stellar mass and exhibits a scatter of ~2dex. All CGM metallicities are lower than the galaxy ISM metallicities and are offset by log(dZ)=-1.17+/-0.11. There is no obvious metallicity gradient as a function of impact parameter or virial radius (<2.3 sigma). There is no relationship between the relative CGM-galaxy metallicity and azimuthal angle. We find the mean metallicity differences along the major and minor axes are -1.13+/-0.18 and -1.23+/-0.11, respectively. Regardless of whether we examine our sample by low/high inclination or low/high impact parameter, or low/high N(HI), we do not find any significant relationship with relative CGM-galaxy metallicity and azimuthal angle. We find that 10/15 low column density systems (logN(HI)<17.2) reside along the galaxy major axis while high column density systems (logN(HI)>17.2) reside along the minor axis. This suggest N(HI) could be a useful indicator of accretion/outflows. We conclude that CGM is not well mixed, given the range of galaxy-CGM metallicities, and that metallicity at low redshift might not be a good tracer of CGM processes. Furthermore we should replace integrated line-of-sight, single phase, metallicities with multi-phase, cloud-cloud metallicities, which could be more indicative of the physical processes within the CGM.

arXiv comment10 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted to ApJ on October 7, 2019

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