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While studies of gas-phase metallicity gradients in disc galaxies are common, very little has been done in the acquisition of stellar abundance gradients in the same regions. We present here a comparative study of the stellar metallicity…

The radial gradient of gas-phase metallicity is a powerful probe of the chemical and structural evolution of star-forming galaxies, closely tied to disk formation and gas kinematics in the early universe. We present spatially resolved…

We present a new model for the evolution of gas phase metallicity gradients in galaxies from first principles. We show that metallicity gradients depend on four ratios that collectively describe the metal equilibration timescale,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Piyush Sharda , Mark R. Krumholz , Emily Wisnioski , John C. Forbes , Christoph Federrath , Ayan Acharyya

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 used the ugr magnitudes of 1,437,467 F-G type main-sequence stars with metal abundance -2<[Fe/H]<+0.2 dex and estimated radial and vertical metallicity gradients for high Galactic-latitude fields (b>50) of the Milky Way Galaxy. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 S. Tuncel Guctekin , S. Bilir , S. Karaali , O. Plevne , S. Ak

We examine the role of energy feedback in shaping the distribution of metals within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of L* disc galaxies. While negative abundance gradients today provide a boundary condition for galaxy evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 B. K. Gibson , K. Pilkington , C. B. Brook , G. S. Stinson , J. Bailin

We calculate the stellar mass-metallicity relation at five epochs ranging to z~2.3. We quantify evolution in the shape of the mass-metallicity relation as a function of redshift; the mass-metallicity relation flattens at late times. There…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. Jabran Zahid , Margaret Geller , Lisa Kewley , Ho Seong Hwang , Daniel Fabricant , Michael Kurtz

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

We study the metallicity distribution and evolution in the Galactic disk based on the largest sample of open star clusters in the Galaxy. From the catalogue of 1879 open clusters in the range of Galactocentric distance (R_GC) from 4 to 20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-29 Yogesh C. Joshi , Deepak , Sagar Malhotra

We present the first metallicity gradient measurement for a grand-design face-on spiral galaxy at z~1.5. This galaxy has been magnified by a factor of 22$\times$ by a massive, X-ray luminous galaxy cluster MACS\,J1149.5+2223 at z=0.544.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. -T. Yuan , L. J. Kewley , A. M. Swinbank , J. Richard , R. C. Livermore

The space velocities and Galactic orbital elements of stars calculated from the currently available high-accuracy observations in our summary catalog of spectroscopic magnesium abundances in dwarfs and subgiants in the solar neighborhood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. A. Marsakov , T. V. Borkova

We measure radial gradients of the Mg2 index in 15 E-E/S0 and 14 S0 galaxies. Our homogeneous data set covers a large range of internal stellar velocity dispersions (2.0<logsigma<2.5) and Mg2 gradients (dMg2/dlogr/re* up to -0.14mag/dex).…

We study the gas phase metallicity (O/H) and nitrogen abundance gradients traced by star forming regions in a representative sample of 550 nearby galaxies in the stellar mass range $\rm 10^9-10^{11.5} M_\odot$ with resolved spectroscopic…

The stellar metallicity and its gradient pose constraints to the formation and evolution of galaxies. This is a study of the metallicity gradient of the LMC, SMC and M33 galaxies derived from their asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria-Rosa L. Cioni

A comparison is made between the age-metallicity relation obtained from four different types of studies: F and G stars in the Solar Neighbourhood, analysis of open clusters, galactic structure studies with the stellar population synthesis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Carraro , Y. K. Ng , L. Portinari

We studied the stellar populations of 40 early-type galaxies using medium resolution long-slit spectroscopy along their major axes (and along the minor axis for two of them), from 10^7 Msol to 10^12 Msol (-9.2 > M_B > -22.4 mag). All the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mina Koleva , Philippe Prugniel , Sven De Rijcke , Werner W. Zeilinger

We present the results of a study of stellar population properties at large galactocentric radii of 14 low-mass early-type galaxies in the Fornax and Virgo clusters. We derive radial profiles of Age, total metallicity [Z/H], and [alpha/Fe]…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Max Spolaor , Chiaki Kobayashi , Duncan A. Forbes , Warrick J. Couch , George K. T. Hau

Radial metallicity gradients are fundamental to understanding galaxy formation and evolution. In our high-resolution simulation of a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue, we analyze the linearity, scatter, spatial coherence, and age-related…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Sven Buder , Tobias Buck , Qian-Hui Chen , Kathryn Grasha

The early stages of a galaxy's evolution leave an imprint on its metallicity distribution. We discuss the origins and evolution of radial metallicity gradients in discs of spiral galaxies using an analytical chemical evolution model. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-06 Ralph Schönrich , Paul McMillan

Metallicities of both gas and stars decline toward large radii in spiral galaxies, a trend known as the radial metallicity gradient. We quantify the evolution of the metallicity gradient in the Milky Way as traced by APOGEE red giants with…