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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…

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We present a formalism to infer the presence of merging by comparing the time derivative of the observed galaxy stellar mass function (MF) to the change of the MF expected from the star formation rate (SFR) in galaxies as a function of mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Niv Drory , Marcelo Alvarez

We analyzed the global and resolved properties of approximately 1,240 nearby star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey, comparing compact and extended galaxies -- those with smaller and larger radii ($R_{\rm e}$), respectively -- at a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 Lin Lin , Shiyin Shen , Hassen M. Yesuf , Ye-Wei Mao , Lei Hao

The specific star formation rate (sSFR) is commonly used to describe the level of galaxy star formation (SF) and to select quenched galaxies. However, being a relative measure of the young-to-old population, an ambiguity in its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Samir Salim , Sandro Tacchella , Chandler Osborne , S. M. Faber , Janice C. Lee , Sara L. Ellison

In the local universe, there is good evidence that, at a given stellar mass M, the gas-phase metallicity Z is anti-correlated with the star formation rate (SFR) of the galaxies. It has also been claimed that the resulting Z(M,SFR) relation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-26 C. Maier , S. J. Lilly , B. Ziegler , T. Contini , E. Perez Montero , Y. Peng , I. Balestra

The relationship between galaxy star formation rates (SFR) and stellar masses ($M_\ast$) is re-examined using a mass-selected sample of $\sim$62,000 star-forming galaxies at $z \le 1.3$ in the COSMOS 2-deg$^2$ field. Using new far-infrared…

We describe an equilibrium model that links the metallicity of low-redshift galaxies to stellar evolution models. It enables the testing of different stellar initial mass functions and metal yields against observed galaxy metallicities. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Martin Harwit , Drew Brisbin

We used 5487 star-forming galaxies at redshift z~0.63 extracted from the VIPERS and 143774 comparison galaxies in the local Universe from the GSWLC catalog. We employed two families of methods: parametric and non-parametric. In the former…

We study oxygen abundance profiles of the gaseous disc components in simulated galaxies in a hierarchical universe. We analyse the disc metallicity gradients in relation to the stellar masses and star formation rates of the simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Patricia B. Tissera , Susana E. Pedrosa , Emanuel Sillero , Jose M. Vilchez

In a recent paper we parameterised the evolution of the star-formation rate dispersion ($\sigma_{SFR}$) across the specific star-formation rate - stellar mass plane (sSFR-M$_{\star}$) using the Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey…

A very simple physical model of galaxies, in which the formation of stars is instantaneously regulated by the mass of gas in a reservoir, links together three different aspects of the evolving galaxy population:(a) the cosmic time evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Simon J. Lilly , C. Marcella Carollo , Antonio Pipino , Alvio Renzini , Yingjie Peng

Recent observations in the total luminosity density have led to significant progress in establishing the star formation rate (SFR) at high redshift. Concurrently observed gamma-ray burst rates have also been used to extract the SFR at high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Vangioni , K. A. Olive , T. Prestegard , J. Silk , P. Petitjean , V. Mandic

The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) - the three-way trend between galaxy stellar masses, star-formation rates (SFRs) and gaseous metallicities - remains amongst the most studied extragalactic relations. Furthermore, metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Nicholas Fraser Boardman , Vivienne Wild , Natalia Vale Asari , Francesco D'Eugenio

We investigate a relation between surface densities of star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass ($M_{*}$) at a $\sim 1$ kpc scale namely spatially resolved star formation main sequence (SFMS) in massive ($\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})>10.5$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Abdurro'uf , Masayuki Akiyama

The main observational results from radio continuum and polarization observations about the magnetic field strength and large-scale pattern for face-on and edge-on spiral galaxies are summarized and compared within our sample of galaxies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Marita Krause

Context. One of the most fundamental scaling relations in galaxies is observed between metallicity and stellar mass -- the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) -- although recently a stronger dependence of the gas-phase metallicity with the…

We discuss a new method for inferring the stellar mass of a distant galaxy of known redshift based on the combination of a near-infrared luminosity and multi-band optical photometry. The typical uncertainty for field galaxies with I<22 in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jarle Brinchmann , Richard Ellis

We present a simple, redshift-independent analytic model that explains the local Fundamental Metallicity Relation (FMR), taking into account the physical processes of star formation, inflow of metal-poor intergalactic medium (IGM) gas, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pratika Dayal , Andrea Ferrara , James S. Dunlop

The question how much star formation is occurring at low metallicity throughout the cosmic history appears crucial for the discussion of the origin of various energetic transients, and possibly - double black hole mergers. We revisit the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Martyna Chruslinska , Gijs Nelemans , Lumen Boco , Andrea Lapi

We present an analysis of $\sim$1500 H160-selected photometric galaxies detected to a limiting magnitude of 27.8 in the HUDF, using imaging from the HST WFC3/IR camera in combination with archival UV, optical, and NIR imaging. We fit…