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[abridged] The star formation rates (SFR) of low-metallicity galaxies depend sensitively on the gas metallicity, because metals are crucial to mediating the transition from intermediate-temperature atomic gas to cold molecular gas, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mark R. Krumholz , Avishai Dekel

There is evidence that the well-established mass-metallicity relation in galaxies is correlated with a third parameter: star formation rate (SFR). The strength of this correlation may be used to disentangle the relative importance of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-01 O. Grace Telford , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Evan D. Skillman , Charlie Conroy

The existence of a mass-metallicity (MZ) relation in star forming galaxies at all redshift has been recently established. We aim at studying some possible physical mechanisms contributing to the MZ relation by adopting analytical solutions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-13 E. Spitoni , F. Calura , F. Matteucci , S. Recchi

The metal enrichment of a galaxy is determined by the cycle of baryons in outflows, inflows, and star formation. The relative contribution and timescale of each process sets the relationship between stellar mass, metallicity, and the star…

Stellar metallicity encodes the integrated effects of gas inflow, star formation, and feedback-driven outflow, yet its connection to galaxy structure remains poorly understood. Using SDSS-IV MaNGA, we present the direct observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Kai Wang

We study the relationship between stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR),ionization state, and gas-phase metallicity for a sample of 41 normal star-forming galaxies at $3 \lesssim z \lesssim 3.7$. The gas-phase oxygen abundance, ionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Onodera , C. M. Carollo , S. Lilly , A. Renzini , N. Arimoto , P. Capak , E. Daddi , N. Scoville , S. Tacchella , S. Tatehora , G. Zamorani

We analyse the evolutionary history of galaxies formed in a hierarchical scenario consistent with the concordance $\Lambda$-CDM model focusing on the study of the relation between their chemical and dynamical properties. Our simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maria E. De Rossi , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

Working with 108,786 Sloan Digital Sky Survey low redshift galaxies we have examined the relation between galaxy mass, metallicity, radius, and star formation rates primarily in the central portions of galaxies. We subdivided the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Drew Brisbin , Martin Harwit

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

The spectra of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digit Sky Survey (SDSS) are used to study the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at $z\sim0.8$. The selected sample…

We use a sample of 87 rest-frame UV-selected star-forming galaxies with mean spectroscopic redshift z=2.26 to study the correlation between metallicity and stellar mass at high redshift. Using stellar masses determined from SED fitting to…

In their evolution, star-forming galaxies are known to follow scaling relations between some fundamental physical quantities, such as the mass-metallicity and the main sequence relations. We aim at studying the evolution of galaxies that,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 E. Spitoni , F. Calura , M. Mignoli , R. Gilli , V. Silva Aguirre , A. Gallazzi

The MASSIV (Mass Assembly Survey with SINFONI in VVDS) project aims at finding constraints on the different processes involved in galaxy evolution. This study proposes to improve the understanding of the galaxy mass assembly through…

We present the stellar mass-[Fe/H] and mass-[Mg/H] relation of quiescent galaxies in two galaxy clusters at $z\sim0.39$ and $z\sim0.54$. We derive the age, [Fe/H], and [Mg/Fe] for each individual galaxy using a full-spectrum fitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicha Leethochawalit , Evan N. Kirby , Richard S. Ellis , Sean M. Moran , Tommaso Treu

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…

To understand the formation and evolution of galaxies, it is important to have a full comprehension of the role played by the metallicity, star formation rate (SFR), morphology, and color. The interplay of these parameters at different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. Lara-Lopez , A. Bongiovanni , J. Cepa , A. M. Perez Garcia , M. Sanchez-Portal , H. O. Castaneda , M. Fernandez Lorenzo , M. Povic

The gas-phase metallicity of low-mass galaxies increases with increasing stellar mass ($M_\ast$) and is nearly constant for high-mass galaxies. Theory suggests that this tight mass-metallicity relationship is shaped by galactic outflows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 J. Chisholm , C. Tremonti , C. Leitherer

We aim at reproducing the mass- and sigma-[alpha/Fe] relations in the stellar populations of early-type galaxies by means of a cosmologically motivated assembly history for the spheroids. We implement a detailed treatment for the chemical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Pipino , J. E. G. Devriendt , D. Thomas , J. Silk , S. Kaviraj

Aims. We present a continuation of our study about the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). In this work we extend the determination of metallicities up to redshift = 1.24 for a sample…