JINGLE – IV. Dust, H i gas, and metal scaling laws in the local Universe. Issue 3 (2nd June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: De Looze, I; Lamperti, I; Saintonge, A; Relaño, M; Smith, M W L; Clark, C J R; Wilson, C D; Decleir, M; Jones, A P; Kennicutt, R C; Accurso, G; Brinks, E; Bureau, M; Cigan, P; Clements, D L; De Vis, P; Fanciullo, L; Gao, Y; Gear, W K; Ho, L C; Hwang, H S; Michałowski, M J; Lee, J C; Li, C; Lin, L; Liu, T; Lomaeva, M; Pan, H-A; Sargent, M; Williams, T; Xiao, T; Zhu, M;
• Is Part Of: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 496:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 3668
• Page End: 3687
• Publication Date: 2020-06-02
• Subjects: ISM: abundances -- ISM: dust, extinction -- galaxies: evolution -- galaxies: star formation; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1496
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0035-8711

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Scaling laws of dust, H i gas, and metal mass with stellar mass, specific star formation rate, and metallicity are crucial to our understanding of the build-up of galaxies through their enrichment with metals and dust. In this work, we analyse how the dust and metal content varies with specific gas mass ( M H i / M ⋆ ) across a diverse sample of 423 nearby galaxies. The observed trends are interpreted with a set of Dust and Element evolUtion modelS (DEUS) – including stellar dust production, grain growth, and dust destruction – within a Bayesian framework to enable a rigorous search of the multidimensional parameter space. We find that these scaling laws for galaxies with −1.0 ≲ log M H i / M ⋆ ≲ 0 can be reproduced using closed-box models with high fractions (37–89 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ) of supernova dust surviving a reverse shock, relatively low grain growth efficiencies (ϵ = 30–40), and long dust lifetimes (1–2 Gyr). The models have present-day dust masses with similar contributions from stellar sources (50–80 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ) and grain growth (20–50 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ). Over the entire lifetime of these galaxies, the contribution from stardust (>90 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ) outweighs the fraction of dust grown in the interstellar medium (<10 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ). Our results provide an alternative for the chemical evolution models that require extremely low supernova dust production efficiencies and short grain growth time-scales to reproduce local scaling laws, and could help solving the conundrum on whether or not grains can grow efficiently in the interstellar medium.