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We present a careful and detailed light curve analysis of publicly available $I$-band data on fundamental mode RR Lyrae (RRab) stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) obtained by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sukanta Deb , Harinder P. Singh

The number ratio of carbon-rich to oxygen-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars (the so-called C/M ratio) is closely related to the evolution environment of the host galaxy. This work studies the C/M ratio in 14 galaxies within the Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Tongtian Ren , Biwei Jiang , Yi Ren , Ming Yang

The vertical metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk offers valuable insights into the disk's formation and chemical evolution over time. We utilized the LAMOST-LRS young stellar sample to investigate this gradient and found that it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Gaohuan Long , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Chun Wang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang

We have investigated the metallicity distributions of mono-age stellar populations across the disc of $6 \lesssim R \lesssim 12$\,kpc and $|Z| \lesssim 2$\,kpc using samples selected from the main-sequence turn-off and sub-giant (MSTO-SG)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 C. Wang , X. -W. Liu , M. -S. Xiang , Y. Huang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , J. -J. Ren , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian

Aims: To investigate a possible dependence between age and metallicity in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) from a study of small open star clusters, using Str\"{o}mgren photometry. Our goal is to trace evidence of an age metallicity relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 E. Livanou , A. Dapergolas , M. Kontizas , B. Nordström , E. Kontizas , J. Andersen , B. Dirsch , A. Karampelas

We investigate the vertical metallicity gradients of five mono-age stellar populations between 0 and 11 Gyr for a sample of 18 435 dwarf stars selected from the cross-matched Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) and RAdial Velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-16 Ioana Ciucă , Daisuke Kawata , Jane Lin , Luca Casagrande , George Seabroke , Mark Cropper

The observed radial and vertical metallicity distribution of old stars in the Milky Way disk provides a powerful constraint on the chemical enrichment and dynamical history of the disk. We present the radial metallicity gradient,…

We present new spectroscopic metal abundances for 74 RR Lyrae stars in omega Cen obtained with FLAMES. The well-known metallicity spread is visible among the RR Lyrae variables. The metal-intermediate (MInt) RR Lyrae stars ([Fe/H] ~ -1.2)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Sollima , J. Borissova , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith , D. Minniti , C. Cacciari , F. R. Ferraro

The properties of RR Lyrae variables make them excellent probes of the formation and evolution of a stellar population. The mere presence of such stars necessitates an age greater than ~10 Gyr while their periods and amplitudes can be used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-26 Ata Sarajedini

A number of previous studies have searched for a correlation between radial metallicity gradients and early-type galaxy mass -- no convincing trends have been found. Here we re-examine this issue with several key enhancements: using total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Duncan A. Forbes , Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez , Robert Proctor

The formation and evolution of galaxies is imprinted on their stellar population radial gradients. Two recent articles present conflicting results concerning the mass dependence of the metallicity gradients for early-type dwarf galaxies. On…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Koleva , Ph. Prugniel , S. De Rijcke , W. W. Zeilinger , D. Michielsen

Through a homogeneous analysis of spectroscopic literature data of red giant stars, we determine the radial metallicity profiles of 30 dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. We explore correlations between the calculated metallicity gradients…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 S. Taibi , G. Battaglia , R. Leaman , A. Brooks , C. Riggs , F. Munshi , Y. Revaz , P. Jablonka

We present the radial velocities, metallicities and the K-band magnitudes of 74 RR Lyrae stars in the inner regions of the LMC. The intermediate resolution spectra and infrared images were obtained with FORS1 at the ESO VLT and with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Borissova , D. Minniti , M. Rejkuba , D. Alves , K. H. Cook , K. C. Freeman

During the last years and decades several individual studies and large-scale spectroscopic surveys significantly improved our knowledge of the Galactic metallicity distribution based on open clusters. The availability of Gaia data provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-09 Martin Netopil , İnci Akkaya Oralhan , Hikmet Çakmak , Raúl Michel , Yüksel Karataş

The characteristics of the cluster systems of the Magellanic Clouds, as inferred from integrated properties, are compared with those from individual cluster studies and from the field population. The agreement is generally satisfactory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Da Costa

We have estimated a metallicity map of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey (MCPS) and Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III) photometric data. This is a first of its kind map of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Samyaday Choudhury , Annapurni Subramaniam , Andrew A. Cole

We analyze the stellar mass-to-light ratio (M/L) gradients in a large sample of local galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, spanning a wide range of stellar masses and morphological types. As suggested by the well known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Tortora , N. R. Napolitano , A. J. Romanowsky , Ph. Jetzer , V. F. Cardone , M. Capaccioli

We present metallicity gradients in 49 local field star-forming galaxies. We derive gas-phase oxygen abundances using two widely adopted metallicity calibrations based on the [OIII]/Hbeta, [NII]/Halpha and [NII]/[OII] line ratios. The two…

We have tested the reliability of the red giant branch (RGB) as a metallicity indicator accounting for observational errors as well as the complexity of star formation histories (SFHs) and chemical evolution histories observed in various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Antonio J. Ordoñez , Ata Sarajedini

We report results that show that the straightforwardly star cluster metallicities obtained from Str\"omgren $vby$ photometry is age-dependent and need to be corrected for further use. This outcome arises from the comparison of [Fe/H] values…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Andrés E. Piatti