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We present the mass-metallicity (MZ) and luminosity-metallicity (LZ) relations at z ~ 0.8 from ~1350 galaxies in the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe 2 (DEEP2) survey. We determine stellar masses by fitting the spectral energy…

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We use a sample of 87 rest-frame UV-selected star-forming galaxies with mean spectroscopic redshift z=2.26 to study the correlation between metallicity and stellar mass at high redshift. Using stellar masses determined from SED fitting to…

The stellar metallicity is a direct measure of the amount of metals present in a galaxy, as a large part of the metals lie in its stars. In this paper we investigate new stellar metallicity indicators suitable for high-z galaxies studying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Veronica Sommariva , Filippo Mannucci , Giovanni Cresci , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Tohru Nagao , Andrea Baroni , Andrea Grazian

Observations show that galaxies follow a mass-metallicity relation over a wide range of masses. One currently favoured explanation is that less massive galaxies are less able to retain the gas and stellar ejecta and thus may lose the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Koeppen , C. Weidner , P. Kroupa

Aims. We present a continuation of our study about the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). In this work we extend the determination of metallicities up to redshift = 1.24 for a sample…

We revisit the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation of low- and high-redshift galaxies by using a sample of local analogs of high-redshift galaxies. These analogs share the same location of the UV-selected star-forming galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Fuyan Bian , Lisa Kewley , Michael Dopita , Guillermo Blanc

We explore how the star formation and metal enrichment histories of present-day galaxies have been affected by environment combining stellar population parameter estimates and group environment characterization for SDSS DR7. We compare…

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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

A tight positive correlation between the stellar mass and the gas-phase metallicity of galaxies has been observed at low redshifts. The redshift evolution of this correlation can strongly constrain theories of galaxy evolution. The advent…

We present abundance measurements from 26 emission-line selected galaxies at z~0.6-0.7. By reaching stellar masses as low as 10^8 M_{\sun}, these observations provide the first measurement of the intermediate redshift mass-metallicity (MZ)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Alaina Henry , Crystal L. Martin , Kristian Finlator , Alan Dressler

We study relations between stellar mass, star formation and gas-phase metallicity in a sample of 177,071 unique emission line galaxies from the SDSS-DR7, as well as in a sample of 43,767 star forming galaxies at z=0 from the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Robert M. Yates , Guinevere Kauffmann , Qi Guo

By means of chemical evolution models for ellipticals, spirals and irregular galaxies, we aim at investigating the physical meaning and the redshift evolution of the mass-metallicity relation as well as how this relation is connected with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Calura , A. Pipino , C. Chiappini , F. Matteucci , R. Maiolino , -

We derive stellar metallicities, light-weighted ages and stellar masses for a magnitude-limited sample of 175,128 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Two (SDSS DR2). We compute median-likelihood estimates of these…

The evolution of the metal content of galaxies and its relations to other global properties [such as total stellar mass (M*), circular velocity, star formation rate (SFR), halo mass, etc.] provides important constraints on models of galaxy…

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A brief review concludes that there is now good overall agreement between theoretical estimates of the energy associated with the production of the observed metal content of the Universe and the observed extragalactic background light. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon J. Lilly , C. Marcella Carollo , Alan N. Stockton

Local galaxies follow scaling relations between mass and stellar population properties such as age and metallicity, which encode key information on their evolutionary histories. We revise these relations using the largest spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 D. Mattolini , S. Zibetti , A. R. Gallazzi , L. Scholz-Diaz , J. Pratesi

We investigate the evolution of the mass-metallicity (MZ) relation with a large sample of 53,444 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at $0.04<z<0.12$, selected from the catalog of MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 Yu-Zhong Wu , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Yong-Heng Zhao , Wei Zhang

We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range $z=0-3.3$ using samples of $\sim300$ galaxies at $z\sim2.3$ and $\sim150$ galaxies at $z\sim3.3$ from the MOSDEF survey. This analysis crucially utilizes…

In their evolution, star-forming galaxies are known to follow scaling relations between some fundamental physical quantities, such as the mass-metallicity and the main sequence relations. We aim at studying the evolution of galaxies that,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 E. Spitoni , F. Calura , M. Mignoli , R. Gilli , V. Silva Aguirre , A. Gallazzi