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The stellar metallicity gradients of disc galaxies provide information on the disc assembly, star formation processes and chemical evolution. They also might store information on dynamical processes which could affect the distribution of…

We study the detailed properties of the radial metallicity gradient in the stellar disk of our Galaxy to constrain its chemical and structural evolution. For this purpose we select and analyze $\sim$ 18,500 disk stars taken from two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Daisuke Toyouchi , Masashi Chiba

We infer stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients for a sample of red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Main galaxy sample. Because this sample does not have multiple spectra at various radii in a single galaxy, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Benjamin Roig , Michael R. Blanton , Renbin Yan

We present a detailed analysis of the formation, evolution, and possible longevity of metallicity gradients in simulated dwarf galaxies. Specifically, we investigate the role of potentially orbit-changing processes such as radial stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joeri Schroyen , Sven De Rijcke , Mina Koleva , Annelies Cloet-Osselaer , Bert Vandenbroucke

We analyze the radial and vertical metallicity and [alpha/Fe] gradients of the disk stars of a disk galaxy simulated in a fully cosmological setting with the chemodynamical galaxy evolution code, GCD+. We study how the radial abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Awat Rahimi , Kenneth Carrell , Daisuke Kawata

Long-slit spectra have been obtained with the Keck telescope for a sample of 11 early-type galaxies covering a wide range in luminosity and hence mass. Rotation velocity and velocity dispersions, together with 19 Lick line-strength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Sanchez-Blazquez , D. A. Forbes , J. Strader , J. Brodie , R. Proctor

Metallicity appears to be one the most important tool to study formation and evolution of galaxies. Recently, we have shown that metallicity of local galaxies is tightly related not only to stellar mass, but also to star formation rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 F. Mannucci , G. Cresci

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

Galactic disks typically exhibit a negative radial metallicity gradient, indicating faster enrichment in the inner regions. Recent studies report that this gradient becomes flatter with increasing stellar age in the Milky Way's (MW) thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Ao Chen , Juntai Shen , Chun Wang , Yang Huang

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 analyse for the first time the radial abundance gradients of the disc stars of a disc galaxy simulated with our three dimensional, fully cosmological chemodynamical galaxy evolution code GCD+. We study how [Fe/H], [N/O], [O/Fe], [Mg/Fe]…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Awat Rahimi , Daisuke Kawata , Carlos Allende Prieto , Chris B. Brook , Brad K. Gibson , Alina Kiessling

Radial O/H abundance gradients derived from HII regions, hot stars and planetary nebulae are combined with [Fe/H] gradients from open cluster stars in order to derive an independent [O/Fe] x [Fe/H] relation for the galactic disk. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. Maciel

We examine the metallicity distribution of the Galactic thick disk using F, G, and K dwarf stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 8. Using the large sample of dwarf stars with proper motions and spectroscopically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-29 Kenneth Carrell , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao

We present spatially resolved, simple stellar population equivalent ages, stellar metallicities, and abundance ratios for 456 massive ($10.3\lesssim\log(\mathrm{M}_*/\mathrm{M}_\odot)\lesssim11.8$) quiescent galaxies at $0.6\lesssim…

We present metallicities and their variations with different parameters for 36 high-latitude fields covering Galactic longitudes 0<l<360. The metallicities for relatively short vertical distances (z<2.5 kpc) show systematic fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Ak , S. Bilir , S. Karaali , R. Buser , A. Cabrera-Lavers

(Abridged) We investigate optical and near-IR color gradients in a sample of 172 low-inclination galaxies spanning Hubble types S0--Irr. The colors are compared to stellar population synthesis models from which luminosity-weighted average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lauren A. MacArthur , Stephane Courteau , Eric Bell , Jon Holtzman

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

We present measurements of the [NII]/Ha ratio as a probe of gas-phase oxygen abundance for a sample of 419 star-forming galaxies at z=0.6-2.7 from the KMOS3D near-IR multi-IFU survey. The mass-metallicity relation (MZR) is determined…

We present radial gradients of the Lick index Mg2 for 40 early-type galaxies. In plots of Grad(Mg2) versus mass indicators, such as log(sigma), the lower boundary of the points distribution may be populated by galaxies which predominantly…

We present a newly observed relation between galaxy mass and radial metallicity gradients of early-type galaxies. Our sample of 51 early-type galaxies encompasses a comprehensive mass range from dwarf to brightest cluster galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Max Spolaor , Robert N. Proctor , Duncan A. Forbes , Warrick J. Couch