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Recent low-redshift observations have attempted to determine the star formation histories of elliptical galaxies by tracking correlations between the stellar population parameters (age and metallicity) and the structural parameters that…

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Using current models of spectrophotometric properties of single age, single metallicity stellar populations I have computed the Mg2, Hbeta, Fe52 and Fe53 line strengths for stellar populations with a metallicity spread. The comparison of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Greggio

We study the total density distribution in the central regions (~ 1 effective radius, $R_e$) of early-type galaxies (ETGs), using data from SPIDER and $\rm ATLAS^{3D}$. Our analysis extends the range of galaxy stellar mass ($M_{\star}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Tortora , F. La Barbera , N. R. Napolitano , A. J. Romanowsky , I. Ferreras , R. R. de Carvalho

We investigate stellar elemental abundance patterns at z = 0 in 8 low-mass (M_* = 10^6 - 10^9 M_sun) galaxies in the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) cosmological simulations. Using magnesium (Mg) as a representative…

Galactic and extragalactic abundance studies of H II regions, planetary nebulae, and supernova remnants are compiled and their implications briefly reviewed. Galaxy global metallicity appears to be related directly to total mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. B. C. Henry

This is the second paper of a series aimed to study the stellar kinematics and population properties of bulges in highly-inclined barred galaxies. In this work, we carry out a detailed analysis of the stellar age, metallicity and [Mg/Fe] of…

In our hierarchical structure-formation paradigm, the observed morphological evolution of massive galaxies -- from rotationally-supported discs to dispersion-dominated spheroids -- is largely explained via galaxy merging. However, since…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-25 R. A. Jackson , S. Kaviraj , G. Martin , J. E. G. Devriendt , E. A. Noakes-Kettel , J. Silk , P. Ogle , Y. Dubois

We present new MMT spectroscopic observations of four dwarf galaxies representative of a larger sample observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and identified by Peeples et al. (2008) as low-mass, high oxygen abundance outliers from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Danielle A. Berg , Evan D. Skillman , Andrew R. Marble

In this paper we compare the predictions of a detailed multi-zone chemical evolution model for elliptical galaxies with the very recent observations of the galaxy NGC 4697. As a consequence of the earlier development of the wind in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Pipino , Francesca Matteucci , Cristina Chiappini

We present an analysis of the color-magnitude-velocity dispersion relation for a sample of 39320 early-type galaxies within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We demonstrate that the color-magnitude relation is entirely a consequence of the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bernardi , R. K. Sheth , R. C. Nichol , D. P. Schneider , J. Brinkmann

We examine the scatter of the relation between stellar mass and stellar metallicity for cluster dwarf galaxies in the cosmological simulation Illustris. The mass-metallicity relation exhibits the smallest intrinsic scatter at the galaxies'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-17 Christoph Engler , Thorsten Lisker , Annalisa Pillepich

The metal-poor gas continuously accreting onto the discs of spiral galaxies is unlikely to arrive from the intergalactic medium (IGM) with exactly the same rotation velocity as the galaxy itself and even a small angular momentum mismatch…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Gabriele Pezzulli , Filippo Fraternali

Early-type (E and S0) galaxies may have assembled via a variety of different evolutionary pathways. Here we investigate these pathways by comparing the stellar kinematic properties of 24 early-type galaxies from the SLUGGS survey with the…

A recent observational study of haloes of nearby Milky Way-like galaxies shows that only half (four out of eight) of the current sample exhibits strong negative metallicity ([Fe/H]) gradients. This is at odds with predictions from…

We employ the high-redshift suite of FIRE-2 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations to investigate the evolution of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in galaxies in the epoch of reionization (EoR). Our sample consists of 22…

During the last three decades, many papers have reported the existence of a luminosity-metallicity or mass-metallicity (M-Z) relation for all kinds of galaxies: The more massive galaxies are also the ones with more metal-rich interstellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 N. Vale Asari , G. Stasinska , R. Cid Fernandes , J. M. Gomes , M. Schlickmann , A. Mateus , W. Schoenell

I present results on the correlation between galaxy mass, luminosity, and metallicity for a sample of spiral and irregular galaxies having well-measured abundance profiles, distances, and rotation speeds. Additional data for low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-18 Donald R. Garnett

We explore using our continuity approach the underlying connections between the evolution of the faint-end slope of the stellar mass function of star-forming galaxies, the logarithmic slope of the sSFR-mass relation and the merging of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-21 Yingjie Peng , Simon J. Lilly , Alvio Renzini , C. Marcella Carollo

We present first results of a comprehensive survey of deep long-slit spectra along the minor axis of bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies. Our results indicate that stellar populations in bulges are fairly old and encompass a range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Goudfrooij , J. Gorgas , P. Jablonka

The mass-size relation is a fundamental galaxy scaling law closely tied to galaxy formation and evolution. Using added-value products of the Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY (CAVITY) and SDSS DR16 images, we examine the effect…