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We present the results from a multi-epoch survey of two regions of M33 using the 3.5m WIYN telescope. The inner field is located close to the centre of the galaxy, with the outer region situated about 5.1 kpc away in the southern spiral…

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We present a novel method to retrieve the chemical structure of galaxies using integral field spectroscopy data through the stellar Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF). This is the probability distribution of observing stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Mejía-Narváez , S. F. Sánchez , E. A. D. Lacerda , L. Carigi , L. Galbany , B. Husemann , R. García-Benito

We present a low metallicity map of the Milky Way consisting of $\sim$111,000 giants with $-3.5 \lesssim$ [Fe/H] $\lesssim -$0.75, based on public photometry from the second data release of the SkyMapper survey. These stars extend out to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Anirudh Chiti , Mohammad K. Mardini , Anna Frebel , Tatsuya Daniel

Radial migration is an important process in the evolution of the Galactic disk. The metallicity gradient of open clusters and its outliers provide an effective way to probe for this process. In this work, we compile metallicity, age, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Haopeng Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao

As part of the Bluedisk survey we analyse the radial gas-phase metallicity profiles of 50 late-type galaxies We compare the metallicity profiles of a sample of HI-rich galaxies against a control sample of HI-'normal' galaxies. We find the…

We investigate the vertical metallicity gradients of five mono-age stellar populations between 0 and 11 Gyr for a sample of 18 435 dwarf stars selected from the cross-matched Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) and RAdial Velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-16 Ioana Ciucă , Daisuke Kawata , Jane Lin , Luca Casagrande , George Seabroke , Mark Cropper

We explore the relationships between the [O/H] gas-phase metallicity radial gradients and multiple galaxy properties for 238 star-forming galaxies at 0.6<z<2.6 selected from the CANDELS Ly$\alpha$ Emission at Reionization (CLEAR) survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-02 Yingjie Cheng , Mauro Giavalisco , Raymond C. Simons , Zhiyuan Ji , Darren Stroupe , Nikko J. Cleri

Low resolution ESO VLT/FORS spectra of blue supergiant stars are analyzed to determine stellar metallicities (based on elements such as Fe, Ti, Mg) in the extended disk of the spiral galaxy NGC3621. Mildly subsolar metallicity (-0.30 dex)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , Miguel A. Urbaneja , Fabio Bresolin , Matthew. W. Hosek , Norbert Przybilla

We have observed a sample of typical z=1 star forming galaxies, selected from the HiZELS survey, with the new KMOS near-infrared, multi-IFU instrument on the VLT, in order to obtain their dynamics and metallicity gradients. The majority of…

We obtained Subaru FMOS observations of Halpha emitting galaxies selected from the HiZELS narrow-band survey, to investigate the relationship between stellar mass, metallicity and star-formation rate at z = 0.84 - 1.47, for comparison with…

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We present infrared observations of 66 starburst galaxies over a wide range of oxygen abundances, to measure how metallicity affects their dust properties. The data include imaging and spectroscopy from the Spitzer Space Telescope,…

We analyzed the relation between the corotation radii and the galactic radii at which breaks or changes of slope of the metallicity gradients occur in spiral galaxies. With this purpose we compiled the results from the literature on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sergio Scarano , Jacques R. D. Lépine

The structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way bulge is a matter of debate. Important diagnostics for discriminating between bulge models include alpha-abundance trends with metallicity, and spatial abundance and metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-23 N. Ryde , M. Schultheis , V. Grieco , F. Matteucci , R. M. Rich , S. Uttenthaler

We report on the distribution of metallicities, [Fe/H], for very metal-poor stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Although the primary information on the nature of the Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF) is obtained from the two major recent…

We study dissipation process of magnetic fields in the metallicity range $0-1 Z_{\odot}$ for contracting prestellar cloud cores. By solving non-equilibrium chemistry for important charged species including charged grains, we evaluate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hajime Susa , Kentaro Doi , Kazuyuki Omukai

We investigate the relation between stellar mass ($M_\star$), star formation rate (SFR), and metallicity ($Z$) of galaxies, so called the fundamental metallicity relation, in the galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuu Niino

In this work we have assumed a Hernquist model with an inside-out formation for the Galactic bulge and, using a chemical evolution model, we were able obtain the bulge metallicity distribution function (MDF) for different radial regions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 O. Cavichia , M. Mollá

This study is based on high quality astrometric and spectroscopic data from the most recent releases by Gaia and APOGEE. We select $58\,882$ thin and thick disk red giants, in the Galactocentric (cylindrical) distance range $5 < R < 13$~kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Paola Re Fiorentin , Mario G. Lattanzi , Alessandro Spagna