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We numerically investigate the dynamical and chemical processes of the formation of elliptical galaxies in a cold dark matter (CDM) universe, in order to understand the origin of the mass-dependence of the photometric properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daisuke Kawata

We present a multi-zone galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model for the Milky Way that takes the most recently updated yields of major nucleosynthesis channels into account. It incorporates physical processes commonly found in previous GCE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Boquan Chen , Michael R. Hayden , Sanjib Sharma , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Chiaki Kobayashi , Amanda I. Karakas

The chemical composition of galaxies offers vital insights into their formation and evolution. In particular, the relationship between helium abundance (He/H) and metallicity serves as a key diagnostic for estimating the primordial helium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Keita Fukushima , Kentaro Nagamine , Akinori Matsumoto , Yuki Isobe , Masami Ouchi , Takayuki Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai

We describe the evolution of galaxies in a chemically consistent way accounting for the increasing initial metallicity of successive generations of stars. The enrichment of various types of model galaxies is compared with Damped Ly$\alpha$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben , U. Lindner , C. S. Möller

The Galaxy is in continuous elemental evolution. Since new elements produced by dying stars are delivered to the interstellar medium, the formation of new enerations of stars and planetary systems is influenced by this metal enrichment. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-17 Em. M. Penteado , H. M. Cuppen , H. J Rocha-Pinto

We have invented a new algorithm to use with self-gravitating SPH Star Formation codes. The new method is designed to enable SPH simulations to self-regulate their numerical resolution, i.e. the number of SPH particles; the latter is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Spyridon Kitsionas

We present the results of a numerical study on the effects of metal enrichment and metal cooling on galaxy formation and cosmic star formation (SF) history using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We find following differences in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-13 Jun-Hwan Choi , Kentaro Nagamine

Observations of elemental abundances in the Galaxy have repeatedly shown an intrinsic scatter as a function of time and metallicity. The standard approach to chemical evolution does not attempt to address this scatter in abundances since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Craig J. Copi

We construct several Milky Way-like galaxy models containing a gas halo (as well as gaseous and stellar disks, a dark matter halo, and a stellar bulge) following either an isothermal or an NFW density profile with varying mass and initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jeong-Sun Hwang , Changbom Park , Jun-Hwan Choi

A model for Galactic chemical evolution, driven by supernova-induced star formation, is formulated and used to examine the nature of the Galactic halo at early epochs. In this model, new stars are formed following each supernova event, thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takuji Tsujimoto , Toshikazu Shigeyama , Yuzuru Yoshii

We implement physically motivated recipes for partitioning cold gas into different phases (atomic, molecular, and ionized) in galaxies within semi-analytic models of galaxy formation based on cosmological merger trees. We then model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Rachel S. Somerville , Gergö Popping , Scott C. Trager

We perform a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of disc galaxies, with zoomed-in initial conditions leading to the formation of a halo of mass $M_{\rm halo, \, DM} \simeq 2 \cdot 10^{12}$ M$_{\odot}$ at redshift $z=0$. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-19 Milena Valentini , Stefano Borgani , Alessandro Bressan , Giuseppe Murante , Luca Tornatore , Pierluigi Monaco

We present a new particle code for modelling the evolution of galaxies. The code is based on a multi-phase description for the interstellar medium (ISM). We included star formation (SF), stellar feedback by massive stars and planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Harfst , Christian Theis , Gerhard Hensler

We discuss recent models of chemical evolution in the developing and collapsing protostellar envelopes associated with low-mass star formation. In particular, the effects of depletion of gas-phase molecules onto grain surfaces is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edwin A. Bergin

We present a simplified chemical and thermal model designed to allow computationally efficient study of the thermal evolution of metal-poor gas within large numerical simulations. Our main simplification is the neglect of the molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. C. O. Glover , A. -K. Jappsen

Abundances of N, Si, S, and Fe for 45 damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) have been compiled and detailed one-zone chemical evolution models have been constructed for 30 of them. Assuming continuous star formation, we found that final…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. B. C. Henry , Jason X. Prochaska

We present updated chemical evolution models of two dwarf spheroidal galaxies (Sculptor and Carina) and the first detailed chemical evolution models of two ultra-faint dwarfs (Hercules and Bo\"otes I). Our results suggest that the dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-05 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Francesca Matteucci , Shaji Vattakunnel , Gustavo A. Lanfranchi

The chemical abundances of stars in galaxies are a fossil record of the star formation and stellar evolution processes that regulate galaxy formation, including the stellar initial mass function, the fraction and timing of type Ia…

Fully cosmological, high resolution N-Body + SPH simulations are used to investigate the chemical abundance trends of stars in simulated stellar halos as a function of their origin. These simulations employ a physically motivated supernova…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Adi Zolotov , Beth Willman , Alyson Brooks , Fabio Governato , David W. Hogg , Sijing Shen , James Wadsley

We follow the chemical evolution of the Galaxy for the s elements using a Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model, as already discussed by Travaglio et al. (1999, 2001, 2004), with a full updated network and refined asymptotic giant branch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Serminato , R. Gallino , C. Travaglio , S. Bisterzo , O. Straniero