The Leoncino Dwarf Galaxy: Exploring the Low-Metallicity End of the Luminosity-Metallicity and Mass-Metallcity Relations

Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, Danielle A. Berg, Evan D. Skillman +10

Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies are low-mass, star-forming galaxies with gas-phase oxygen abundances below 12+log(O/H) = 7.35 (~1/20 Zsun). Galaxy evolution scenarios suggest t…