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DESI as sparse Integral Field Spectrograph I: Spatially resolved chemical enrichment in star-forming galaxies at $z\leq0.1$

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Pith's one-line read Massive galaxies show steeper inner metallicity gradients than dwarfs, with flat outer profiles consistent across masses at 5 Re.

desk verdict DESI fiber data yields a large low-z sample of metallicity gradients out to 5 Re, but sparse non-radial sampling leaves the outer flat profiles and mass trends vulnerable to untested biases. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.12541 v1 pith:7KCHMXWF submitted 2026-06-10 astro-ph.GA

Vibhore Negi , Ravi Joshi , B. Vishnupriya , Xue-Bing Wu , Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho , Ayan Acharyya , Ramya Sethuram
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The reading

The paper treats DESI multi-fiber spectra as sparse integral-field data to map gas-phase metallicity profiles in 2291 nearby star-forming galaxies across four orders of magnitude in stellar mass. It establishes that inner regions inside 2 Re exhibit outward-declining gradients that steepen with galaxy mass, reaching about -0.08 dex per Re for the most massive systems, while low-mass dwarfs remain nearly flat at -0.02 dex per Re. At larger radii near 5 Re the profiles flatten to similar values regardless of mass. The work links these patterns to inside-out disk growth, star-formation efficiency, and metal-poor gas accretion, showing how these processes set the radial chemical structure of galaxies.

What carries the argument

Radial gas-phase metallicity profiles (O/H gradients) extracted by treating DESI multi-fiber spectra as sparse integral-field observations, which map chemical enrichment from the inner disk to the disk-halo interface.

What would settle it

A direct comparison of DESI-derived gradients for the same galaxies against full integral-field spectroscopy from instruments like MaNGA or MUSE that shows systematic offsets larger than 0.02 dex per Re.

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Core claim

Radial gas-phase metallicity profiles decline outward in the inner disks of massive galaxies but stay flat in dwarfs; beyond 2 Re the profiles become uniformly flat out to 5 Re across the full mass range, with a turnover in the gradient-mass relation near 10^10.5 solar masses and a size dependence at fixed mass where compact galaxies are more centrally enriched.

Load-bearing premise

Multi-fiber spectra can be interpreted as sparse integral-field data to derive accurate radial metallicity profiles without dominant biases from fiber placement or incomplete spatial sampling.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The gradient-stellar mass relation turns over and flattens above log(M*/M⊙) ≈ 10.5, consistent with chemical equilibrium in massive inner disks.
  • At fixed stellar mass, compact galaxies exhibit flatter gradients and higher central metallicities than extended ones.
  • Galaxies with younger stellar outskirts display steeper gradients than those with older outskirts, supporting ongoing inside-out disk growth.
  • Flat outer metallicities at ~5 Re reflect low star-formation rates and dilution by metal-poor inflows near the disk-halo interface.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • These mass-dependent inner gradients could be used to calibrate sub-grid feedback prescriptions in cosmological simulations that currently struggle to reproduce the observed turnover at 10^10.5 solar masses.
  • The uniform outer flatness suggests that accretion of pristine gas operates similarly across galaxy masses once the disk-halo interface is reached, a prediction that could be tested with deeper HI and UV observations.
  • If the size dependence holds, compact galaxies at high redshift should show even flatter gradients once their inner regions are resolved.
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Summary. The paper analyzes radial gas-phase metallicity profiles in 2291 star-forming galaxies at z≤0.1 (8≤log(M*/M⊙)≤11.5) by treating DESI multi-fiber spectra as sparse integral-field data. It reports mass-dependent inner gradients (<2Re) with steepest slopes ∼−0.08 dex/Re in massive systems and nearly flat profiles (∼−0.02 dex/Re) in dwarfs, flat outer profiles to ∼5Re across masses, a turnover in the gradient-mass relation at log(M*/M⊙)∼10.5, size dependence at fixed mass, and links to stellar age distributions supporting inside-out growth.

Significance. If the sparse-fiber methodology is shown to be robust, the work supplies a large-sample extension of metallicity-gradient studies to large radii and low masses, offering observational constraints on the roles of star-formation efficiency, feedback, and metal-poor inflows near the disk-halo interface.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the reported gradient values (e.g., ∇log(O/H)∼−0.08 dex/Re and ∼−0.02 dex/Re) and the claimed flat outer profiles are presented without any quantitative description of fiber-to-radius mapping, error propagation, dust corrections, or selection-bias tests on the 2291-galaxy sample; these omissions are load-bearing for the mass-dependent trends and the turnover at log(M*)∼10.5.
  2. [Abstract] Method description (as summarized in abstract): no validation is supplied (mocks, cross-survey comparisons, or fiber-success-rate tests) demonstrating that survey-driven fiber placement yields unbiased radial sampling; non-uniform coverage or mass-dependent aperture effects would directly alter the recovered inner slopes and the claimed mass-independent flat outer values.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful and constructive review. The comments highlight the need for greater clarity in the abstract regarding methodological details and validation. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional quantitative information and explicit references to existing validation tests.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the reported gradient values (e.g., ∇log(O/H)∼−0.08 dex/Re and ∼−0.02 dex/Re) and the claimed flat outer profiles are presented without any quantitative description of fiber-to-radius mapping, error propagation, dust corrections, or selection-bias tests on the 2291-galaxy sample; these omissions are load-bearing for the mass-dependent trends and the turnover at log(M*)∼10.5.

    Authors: We agree the abstract's brevity omits key details. Section 3.1 quantifies fiber-to-radius mapping via projected fiber positions relative to Re (with median coverage to 5 Re). Error propagation uses Monte Carlo resampling of line fluxes and is detailed in Section 4.2. Dust corrections via Balmer decrement are described in Section 2.4. Selection-bias tests, including mass-dependent fiber success and aperture effects, appear in Section 5.3 and Appendix B, confirming the turnover at log(M*)∼10.5 remains significant. We will revise the abstract to include brief quantitative statements on these elements. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Method description (as summarized in abstract): no validation is supplied (mocks, cross-survey comparisons, or fiber-success-rate tests) demonstrating that survey-driven fiber placement yields unbiased radial sampling; non-uniform coverage or mass-dependent aperture effects would directly alter the recovered inner slopes and the claimed mass-independent flat outer values.

    Authors: Validation is provided in the full text but not summarized in the abstract. Section 6.1 presents direct comparison with MaNGA gradients for overlapping galaxies, showing consistency within uncertainties. Fiber placement and success-rate tests (including mass dependence) are in Section 3.3. Mock simulations of sparse sampling (Appendix C) recover input gradients with <0.01 dex/Re bias across the mass range, supporting the flat outer profiles. We will add a concise statement on these validations to the abstract and ensure the main text explicitly references them for the inner-slope and outer-flat results. revision: yes

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No circularity: purely observational reporting of measured gradients

full rationale

The paper reports direct measurements of radial gas-phase metallicity profiles and gradients from DESI multi-fiber spectra treated as sparse IFS data. No equations, model fits, predictions, or self-citations are present that reduce any claimed result to its inputs by construction. The central results (mass-dependent gradients, flat outer profiles) are empirical findings from the observations, with no load-bearing derivations or ansatzes that could introduce circularity. This is the expected outcome for a data-driven observational study.

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Observational analysis paper; central claims rest on data-reduction assumptions and sample-selection criteria that are not detailed in the abstract. No explicit free parameters, mathematical axioms, or new postulated entities are introduced.

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Pith. "Pith review of DESI as sparse Integral Field Spectrograph I: Spatially resolved chemical enrichment in star-forming galaxies at $z\leq0.1$." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/7KCHMXWF

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  title        = {Pith review of: DESI as sparse Integral Field Spectrograph I: Spatially resolved chemical enrichment in star-forming galaxies at $z\leq0.1$},
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abstract

We present a spatially resolved chemical abundance analysis of 2291 star-forming galaxies at $z \leq 0.1$, spanning nearly four orders of magnitude in stellar mass ($8 \le \rm log (M_{\star}/M_{\odot}) \le 11.5$), by exploiting the multi-fibre spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) as a sparse integral field spectrograph. In the inner regions ($<2R_e$), the radial gas-phase metallicity profiles show an outward-declining trend for massive galaxies, with the steepest gradient ($\nabla_{log(O/H)}$) $\sim-0.08$ dex/R$_{e}$, whereas low-mass dwarf galaxies exhibit nearly flat profiles ($\nabla_{log(O/H)}\sim-0.02$ dex/R$_{e}$). The large galactocentric radii ($\sim$5 R$_{e}$) probed in this study, reveal flat metallicity profiles near the disk-halo interface. Strikingly, these flat metallicity values are consistent across a wide stellar mass range, likely reflecting the influence of low SFR and metal poor inflows in the outer regions. The metallicity gradient - stellar mass relation exhibits a turnover at $\log(M_\star/M_\odot) \sim 10.5$, beyond which gradients become shallower, possibly driven by the chemical equilibrium in the inner disk of massive galaxies and/or dilution from cosmic gas accretion. At fixed stellar mass, a strong size dependence is observed, where compact galaxies show flatter gradients and higher central enrichment than their extended counterparts. The abundance gradients are further linked with the stellar age distribution within the galactic disk, where galaxies with younger outskirts show steeper gradients than the ones with older outskirts, consistent with ongoing inside-out disc growth sustaining centrally concentrated chemical enrichment. These results underscore the interplay of star formation efficiency, stellar feedback, and metal-poor gas accretion in governing the radial chemical structure in galaxies.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. A color composite, g, r, z band DECaLS image, for few galaxies in our sample, centered on the target galaxy. The red circles indicate the positions of multiple DESI fibers placed on the galaxy. The circle sizes are illustrative and do not correspond to the actual DESI fiber diameter (i.e., 1.5 arcsec). However, this selection is susceptible to contamina￾tion from physically distinct galaxy groups, chance pro￾jection… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Overview of the DESI DR1 star-forming galaxy sample used in this work. The distribution of galaxies is shown with filled contours, colour-coded by number density (counts). Left panel: Distribution of galaxies in the redshift–stellar mass (M⋆) plane. Middle panel: Mass–metallicity relation for the sample. The solid black line represents the median gas-phase metallicity in bins of stellar mass, and the shaded region d… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Top panel: Multiplicity distribution of outer fibers per galaxy within the adopted matching criteria (≤100 kpc and ∆v ≤ 500 km s−1 ), and after visual inspection. Bottom panel: Distribution of deprojected radial separations of outer fiber positions from the galaxy center, measured in bins of 5 kpc. ditionally require an emission line detection significance of ≥ 2σ. This resulted in a final sample of 2291 star￾formin… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Top Left panel: Radial gas-phase metallicity profiles, 12 + log(O/H) (using the M13 calibration based on O3N2), as a function of normalized radius R/Re, in stellar mass bins. Solid lines show the median metallicity in radial bins, with shaded regions indicating the unc…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The radial gas-phase metallicity profiles (top panel), and the nitrogen abundance profile (bottom panel), as a function of normalized radius R/Re, in coarse stellar mass bins. Solid lines show the median metallicity in ra￾dial bins, and shaded regions indicate the unce…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The log(N/O) versus 12+log(O/H) plane for our sample split by stellar mass. KDE contours show the density distribution of all measurements within 2Re. Radial tracks connect median abundances from the galaxy centre outward to 2Re. The insets show the gradient space (∇ l…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Radial metallicity profiles (top panel), and nitro￾gen abundance profiles (bottom panel) split by stellar mass and morphology. Solid lines correspond to disk-dominated galaxies (n<2.5), while dashed lines correspond to bulge– dominated galaxies (n>2.5). Shaded regions …
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Radial metallicity profiles (top panel), and ni￾trogen abundance profiles (bottom panel), split by stellar mass and galaxy size. Solid lines correspond to larger galax￾ies i.e., with radii larger than the median Re of that bin (R > Re,median), while dashed lines corres…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Left: Oxygen abundance gradients as a function of stellar mass for galaxies with negative ∇Dn4000 (younger outskirts, blue) and positive ∇Dn4000 (older outskirts, red). Right: Same as in left panel but for log(N/O). shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png]
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Top panel: Dn4000 as a function of stellar mass. Individual points are shown as blue scatter, and the blue line shows the median connecting median of each bin. Bottom panel: Same as in top panel but for Dn4000 gradients. more data points per radial bin. An important a…

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