On the Contribution of Very Massive Stars to the Sulfur Abundance in Star-Forming Galaxies: the Role of PISN

Abstract

Recent work presented increasing evidence of high, non-constant S/O abundance ratios observed in star-forming metal-poor galaxies, showing deviations from the constant canonical S/O across a large range of O/H abundance. Similar peculiar high Fe/O ratios have been also recently detected. We investigate whether these high S/O ratios at low metallicities could be explained taking into consideration the process of Pair Instability Supernovae (PISN) in chemical modelling through which similar behaviour observed for Fe/O ratios was successfully reproduced. We use chemical evolution models which take into account the stages of PISN in the yields published by Goswami et al. 2022, and adopt a suitable initial mass function (IMF) to characterize this evolutionary stage .appropriately. The peculiar high values and the behaviour of the observed S/O versus O/H relation can be reproduced when the ejecta of very massive stars that go through the process of PISN are taken into account. Additionally, a bi-modal top-heavy IMF and an initial strong burst of star formation are required to attain the reported high S/O values. We show that the role of very massive stars going through the process of PISN should be taken into account when explaining the chemical enrichment of sulfur and oxygen in metal-poor star-forming regions.

arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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