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The color index $(J-K)_0$ of tip-red giant branch (TRGB) is used to study the metallicity distribution in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud. With the most complete and pure sample of red member stars so far, the areas are divided into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-06 Ying Li , Biwei Jiang , Yi Ren

Estimates of the [O/H] metallicity of the star-forming gas in a sample of 66 CFRS galaxies between 0.47 < z < 0.92 have been made based on the flux ratios of bright emission lines. Most galaxies (> 75%) have the [O/H] ~ 8.9 metallicities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simon J. Lilly , C. Marcella Carollo , Alan N. Stockton

The stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients from the fiducial late-type galaxy simulation of Stinson et al. (2010) are presented. Over 1-3 scalelengths, gradients are shown to flatten with time, consistent with empirical evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-15 K. Pilkington , B. K. Gibson

We have performed deep imaging of a diverse sample of 26 low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) in the optical and the near-infrared. Using stellar population synthesis models, we find that it is possible to place constraints on the ratio…

We present theoretical evolutionary sequences of intermediate mass stars (M=3-6.5 solar masses) with metallicity Z=0.004. Our goal is to test whether the self-enrichment scenario by massive Asymptotic Giant Branch stars may work for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-18 Paolo Ventura Francesca D'Antona

We explore the origin of stellar metallicity gradients in simulated and observed dwarf galaxies. We use FIRE-2 cosmological baryonic zoom-in simulations of 26 isolated galaxies as well as existing observational data for 10 Local Group dwarf…

We have obtained velocity dispersions from Keck high-resolution integrated spectroscopy of ten M31 globular clusters (GCs), including three candidate intermediate-age GCs. We show that these candidates have the same V-band mass-to-light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Jay Strader , Graeme Smith , Soeren Larsen , Jean Brodie , John Huchra

We have assembled a catalogue of relative ages, metallicities and abundance ratios for about 150 local galaxies in field, group and cluster environments. The galaxies span morphological types from cD and ellipticals, to late type spirals.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. I. Terlevich , Duncan A. Forbes

We focus on the resolved stellar populations of one early- and four transition-type dwarf galaxies in the Sculptor group, with the aim to examine the potential presence of population gradients and place constraints on their mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-14 S. Lianou , E. Grebel , G. S. Da Costa , M. Rejkuba , H. Jerjen , A. Koch

The impact of metallicity on the mass-loss rate from red giant branch (RGB) stars is studied through its effect on the parameters of horizontal branch (HB) stars. The scaling factors from Reimers (1975) and Schroder & Cuntz (2005) are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Iain McDonald , Albert Zijlstra

We present the abundance gradients of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) for 25 elemental abundance ratios and their respective temporal evolution as well as age-[X/Fe] trends using 6130 LMC field red giant branch (RGB) stars observed by…

The age distribution function of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is known to present a feature called the cluster age gap, a period of time from ~ 4 to 11 Gyr ago with a remarkable small number of clusters identified. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrés E. Piatti

Open clusters (OC) of 1-3 Gyr age contain intermediate-to-low-mass stars in evolutionary phases of multiple relevance to understanding Li evolution. Stars leaving the main sequence (MS) from the hot side of the Lithium dip (LD) at a fixed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-22 B. A. Twarog , B. J. Anthony-Twarog , C. P. Deliyannis , A. Steinhauer

We have observed (with vby filters) a field north of the core of the most massive globular cluster in our galaxy, Omega Centauri. We have found a correlation of age and metallicity in a region which avoids the dense core and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joanne Hughes , George Wallerstein

We have collected high-dispersion echelle spectra of red giant members in the twelve open clusters (OCs) and derived stellar parameters and chemical abundances for 26 species by either line equivalent widths or synthetic spectrum analyses.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Arumalla B. S. Reddy , David L. Lambert , Sunetra Giridhar

We demonstrate that failure to properly account for stellar evolution can bias results in determinations of the spatial morphology of Galactic bulge stars, focusing on the question of whether or not the X-shape is more pronounced among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-23 David M. Nataf , S. Cassisi , E. Athanassoula

Using optical-optical and optical-NIR colors, we analyze the radial dependence of age and metallicity inside massive (M* > 10^10.5 MSun), low-redshift (z<0.1), early-type galaxies (ETGs), residing in both high-density group regions and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. La Barbera , I. Ferreras , R. R. de Carvalho , P. A. A. Lopes , A. Pasquali , I. G. de la Rosa , G. De Lucia

We aim to probe the dynamic structure of the extended Solar neighbourhood by calculating the radial metallicity gradients from orbit properties, which are obtained for axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric potential models, of red clump (RC)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 O. Onal Tas , S. Bilir , O. Plevne

Age-metallicity relation for the Galactic disc is a crucial tool and to constrain the Galactic chemical evolution models. We investigate the age-metallicity relation of the Galactic disc using the red giant branch stars in the Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-01 S. Doner , S. Ak , O. Onal Tas , O. Plevne

We present Washington system colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for 17 practically unstudied star clusters located in the bar as well as in the inner disc and outer regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Cluster sizes were estimated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tali Palma , Juan J. Clariá , Doug Geisler , Luciana V. Gramajo , Andrea V. Ahumada