Nitrogen Abundances in DLA Systems: The Combined Effects of SNII and SNIa in a Hierarchical Clustering Scenario

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2002-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210240v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 337 (2002) L27

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 Postscript figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS (pink pages)

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.06108.x

The combined enrichment of Supernovae II and I in a hierarchical clustering scenario could produce regions with low N content respect to $\alpha$-elements consistent with observed values measured in Damped Ly-$\alpha$ (DLAs). We have studied the formation of DLAs in a hierarchical clustering scenario under the hypothesis that the building blocks of current field galaxies could be part of the structures mapped by DLAs. In our models the effects of the non-linear evolution of the structure (which produces bursty star formation histories, gas infall, etc.) and the contributions of SNIa and SNII are found to be responsible of producing these N regions with respect to the $\alpha$-elements. Although SNIa are not main production sites for Si or O, because of the particular timing Consistently, we found the simulated low nitrogen DLAs to have sub-solar [Fe/H]. We show that low nitrogen DLAs have experienced important star formation activity in the past with higher efficiency than normal DLAs. Our chemical model suggests that SNIa play a relevant role in the determination of the abundance pattern of DLA and, that the observed low nitrogen DLA frequency could be explained taking into account the time-delay of $\approx $ 0.5 Gyr introduced by these supernova to release metals.

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