EMPRESS. VI. Outflows Investigated in Low-Mass Galaxies with $M_{\ast }=10^4-10^7{M}_{\odot }$: Weak Feedback in Low-Mass Galaxies?

Abstract

We study emission line profiles of 21 nearby low-mass ($M_{\ast }=10^4-10^7{M}_{\odot }$) galaxies in deep medium-high resolution spectra taken with Magellan/MagE. These low-mass galaxies are actively star-forming systems with high specific star-formation rates of $\mathrm{sSFR}\sim 100-1000{\mathrm{Gyr}}^{-1}$ that are well above the star-formation main sequence and its extrapolation. We identify broad-line components of H$\alpha$ and [OIII]$\lambda 5007$ emission in 14 out of the 21 galaxies that cannot be explained by the MagE instrumental profile or the natural broadening of line emission. We conduct double Gaussian profile fitting to the emission of the 14 galaxies, and find that the broad-line components have line widths significantly larger than those of the narrow-line components, indicative of galactic outflows. The board-line components have moderately large line widths of $\sim 100$ km s${}^{-1}$. We estimate the maximum outflow velocities $v_{\max }$ and obtain values of $\simeq 60-200$ km s${}^{-1}$, which are found to be comparable to or slightly larger than the escape velocities. Positive correlations of $v_{\max }$ with star-formation rates, stellar masses, and circular velocities, extend down into this low-mass regime. Broad- to narrow-line flux ratios BNRs are generally found to be smaller than those of massive galaxies. The small $v_{\max }$ and BNRs suggest that the mass loading factors $\eta$ can be as small as 0.1 - 1 or below, in contrast to the large $\eta$ of energy-driven outflows predicted by numerical simulations.

22 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication by ApJ

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