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Observational studies have revealed that galaxy pairs tend to have lower gas-phase metallicity than isolated galaxies. This metallicity deficiency can be caused by inflows of low-metallicity gas due to the tidal forces and gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Sebastian Bustamante , Martin Sparre , Volker Springel , Robert J. J. Grand

We present the stellar mass-metallicity relation for 34 0.4<z<1 galaxies selected from CFRS and Marano fields, and compare it to those derived from three local samples of galaxies (NFGS, KISS and SDSS). Our metal abundance estimates account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Y. C. Liang , F. Hammer , H. Flores

We have compared the metallicity (represented by oxygen abundance), and the dust-to-gas ratio, in a sample of dwarf galaxies. For dwarf irregulars (dIrrs) we find a good correlation between the two quantities, with a power-law index…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-21 U. Lisenfeld , A. Ferrara

Recent results comparing interacting galaxies to the mass-metallicity relation show that their nuclear oxygen abundances are unexpectedly low. We present analysis of N-body/SPH numerical simulations of equal-mass mergers that confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 David S. N. Rupke , Lisa J. Kewley , Joshua E. Barnes

We calculate the oxygen abundances for ~45,000 star-forming galaxies selected from the SDSS using nine popular `strong-line' metallicity diagnostics. We find that individual galaxies can have metallicities which differ by factors of up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sara L. Ellison , Lisa J. Kewley

We used near-infrared integral field spectroscopic observations from the AMAZE and LSD programs to constrain the metallicity in a sample of 40 star forming galaxies at 3<z<5 (most of which at z~3.4). We measure metallicities by exploiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Troncoso , R. Maiolino , V. Sommariva , G. Cresci , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , M. Meneghetti , A. Grazian , A. Cimatti , A. Fontana , T. Nagao , L. Pentericci

We study the mass-metallicity relation of galactic systems with stellar masses larger than 10^9 Mo in Lambda-CDM scenarios by using chemical hydrodynamical simulations. We find that this relation arises naturally as a consequence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patricia B. Tissera , Maria E. De Rossi , C. Scannapieco

The gas metallicity distributions across individual galaxies and across galaxy samples can teach us much about how galaxies evolve. Massive galaxies typically possess negative metallicity gradients, and mass and metallicity are tightly…

We investigate the environmental dependence of the local gas-phase metallicity in a sample of star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Satellite galaxies with stellar masses in the range $9<\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})<10$ are found to be…

We present spectroscopic metallicities of individual stars in seven gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs), and we show that dIrrs obey the same mass-metallicity relation as the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) satellites of both the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-02 Evan N. Kirby , Judith G. Cohen , Puragra Guhathakurta , Lucy Cheng , James S. Bullock , Anna Gallazzi

In this work we present an analysis of the behaviour of galaxies in a four-dimensional parameter space defined by stellar mass, metallicity, star formation rate, and molecular gas mass. We analyse a combined sample of 227 galaxies, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 M. S. Bothwell , R. Maiolino , C. Cicone , Y. Peng , J. Wagg

Working with 108,786 Sloan Digital Sky Survey low redshift galaxies we have examined the relation between galaxy mass, metallicity, radius, and star formation rates primarily in the central portions of galaxies. We subdivided the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Drew Brisbin , Martin Harwit

We investigate the mass-metallicity relationship of star forming galaxies by analysing the absorption line spectra of $\sim$200,000 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy spectra are stacked in bins of stellar mass and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Eva Sextl , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , H. Jabran Zahid , I-Ting Ho

We calculate the stellar mass-metallicity relation at five epochs ranging to z~2.3. We quantify evolution in the shape of the mass-metallicity relation as a function of redshift; the mass-metallicity relation flattens at late times. There…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. Jabran Zahid , Margaret Geller , Lisa Kewley , Ho Seong Hwang , Daniel Fabricant , Michael Kurtz

The combination of gas-phase oxygen abundances and stellar metallicities can provide us with unique insights into the metal enrichment histories of galaxies. In this work, we compare the stellar and gas-phase metallicities measured within a…

We develop a simple analytical model that tracks galactic metallicities governed by star formation and feedback to gain insight from the observed galaxy stellar mass-metallicity relations over a large range of stellar masses and redshifts.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Yu Lu , Guillermo A. Blanc , Andrew Benson

We present a stellar mass-metallicity relation at z~1.4 with an unprecedentedly large sample of ~340 star-forming galaxies obtained with FMOS on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band selected galaxies at 1.2 < z_{ph} < 1.6 in the…

We exploit recent constraints on the ages and metallicities of early-type galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to gain new insight into the physical origin of two fundamental relations obeyed by these galaxies: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Gallazzi , S. Charlot , J. Brinchmann , S. D. M. White

We present the first systematic investigation into the metallicity gradients in galaxy close pairs. We determine the metallicity gradients for 8 galaxies in close pairs using HII region metallicities obtained with high signal-to-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lisa J. Kewley , David Rupke , H. Jabran Zahid , Margaret J. Geller , Elizabeth J. Barton