2021PASJ...73.1631K

We present the first measurement of the metallicity gradient in extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs). With Subaru/Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS) Integral Field Unit (IFU), we have observed a nearby, low-mass EMPG, HSC J1631+4426, whose oxygen abundance and stellar mass are known to be 12 + log (O/H) = 6.9 and log₁₀(M_*/M_☉) = 5.8, respectively. The measured metallicity gradient is -0.36 ± 0.04 dex kpc^–1 corresponding to -0.049 ± 0.006 dex R_e^–1 for the continuum effective radius of R_e = 0.14 kpc. Our observation has successfully demonstrated that three-dimensional spectroscopy with 8 m-class telescopes is powerful enough to reveal the metallicity distribution in local EMPGs, providing precious information on the baryon cycle in local analogs of primordial galaxies in the early Universe.