2023ApJ...951..102I

We present kinematics of six local extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) with low metallicities (0.016-0.098 Z_⊙) and low stellar masses (10^4.7-10^7.6M_⊙). Taking deep medium/high-resolution (R ∼ 7500) integral-field spectra with 8.2 m Subaru, we resolve the small inner velocity gradients and dispersions of the EMPGs with Hα emission. Carefully masking out substructures originating by inflow and/or outflow, we fit three-dimensional disk models to the observed Hα flux, velocity, and velocity dispersion maps. All the EMPGs show rotational velocities (v_rot) of 5-23 km s^–1 smaller than the velocity dispersions (σ₀) of 17-31 km s^–1, indicating dispersion-dominated (v_rot/σ₀ = 0.29-0.80 < 1) systems affected by inflow and/or outflow. Except for two EMPGs with large uncertainties, we find that the EMPGs have very large gas-mass fractions of f_gas ≃ 0.9-1.0. Comparing our results with other Hα kinematics studies, we find that v_rot/σ₀ decreases and f_gas increases with decreasing metallicity, decreasing stellar mass, and increasing specific star formation rate. We also find that simulated high-z (z ∼ 7) forming galaxies have gas fractions and dynamics similar to the observed EMPGs. Our EMPG observations and the simulations suggest that primordial galaxies are gas-rich dispersion-dominated systems, which would be identified by the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope observations at z ∼ 7.