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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,…

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We use cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to investigate how inflows, star formation, and outflows govern the the gaseous and metal content of galaxies. In our simulations, galaxy metallicities are established by a balance between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Romeel Davé , Kristian Finlator , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

It is well established that (1) star-forming galaxies follow a relation between their star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (M$_{\star}$), the "star-formation sequence", and (2) the SFRs of galaxies correlate with their structure,…

Observed and simulated galaxies exhibit correlations between stellar mass, metallicity and morphology. We use the EAGLE cosmological simulation to examine the origin of these correlations for galaxies in the stellar mass range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 L. J. Zenocratti , M. E. De Rossi , T. Theuns , M. A. Lara-López

Nearby galaxies are the end result of their cosmological evolution, which is predicted to be influenced by the growth of their host dark matter halos. This co-evolution potentially leaves signatures in present-day observed galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Laura Scholz-Diaz , Ignacio Martin-Navarro , Jesus Falcon-Barroso

The physical origin of the scatter in the relation between galaxy stellar mass and the metallicity of the interstellar medium, i.e. the Mass-Metallicity Relation (MZR), reflects the relative importance of key processes in galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Maria L. van Loon , Peter D. Mitchell , Joop Schaye

The evolution of the metal content of galaxies and its relations to other global properties [such as total stellar mass (M*), circular velocity, star formation rate (SFR), halo mass, etc.] provides important constraints on models of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Maria E. De Rossi , Tom Theuns , Andreea S. Font , Ian G. McCarthy

By using the deepest available mid and far infrared surveys in the CANDELS, GOODS and COSMOS fields we study the evolution of the Main Sequence (MS) of star forming galaxies (SFGs) from z~0 to` ~2.5 at stellar masses larger than 10^{10}…

We present rest-frame optical spectra for a sample of 9 low-mass star-forming galaxies in the redshift range 1.5 < z < 3 which are gravitationally lensed by foreground clusters. We used Triplespec, an echelle spectrograph at the Palomar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sirio Belli , Tucker Jones , Richard S. Ellis , Johan Richard

We combine star-formation histories derived from observations of high redshift galaxies with measurements of the z~0 relation between gas-phase metallicity, stellar mass, and star formation rate to make an explicit and completely empirical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-16 Molly S. Peeples , Rachel S. Somerville

We investigate the evolution of the star formation rate-stellar mass relation (SFR-M*) and Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (GSMF) of z ~ 4-7 galaxies, using cosmological simulations run with the smoothed particle hydrodynamics code…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Antonios Katsianis , Edoardo Tescari , Stuart Wyithe

The redshift-dependent relation between galaxy stellar mass and star formation rate (the Star-Forming Sequence, or SFS) is a key observational yardstick for galaxy assembly. We use the SAGAbg-A sample of background galaxies from the…

(abridged) The majority of star-forming galaxies follow a simple empirical correlation in the star formation rate (SFR) versus stellar mass ($M_*$) plane, usually referred to as the star formation Main Sequence (MS). Here we combine a set…

A large deep and nearly complete B<24.5 redshift sample is used to measure the change in distribution function of the stellar mass production rate in individual galaxies with redshift. The evolution of the star formation rate distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lennox L. Cowie , Esther M. Hu , Antoinette Songaila , Eiichi Egami

We present observational evidence for a stellar Fundamental Metallicity Relation (FMR), a smooth relation between stellar mass, star-formation rate (SFR) and the light-weighted stellar metallicity of galaxies (analogous to the…

We present the stellar mass ($M_{*}$)--gas-phase metallicity relation (MZR) and its scatter at intermediate redshifts ($0.5\leq z\leq0.7$) for 1381 field galaxies collected from deep spectroscopic surveys. The star formation rate (SFR) and…

Episodic star formation cycles in both high- and low-redshift galaxies have gained more and more evidence. This paper aims to understand the detailed physical processes behind such behaviors and investigate how such an episodic star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-02 Yuqian Gui , Dandan Xu , Haoyi Wang , Xuelun Mei , Enci Wang , Cheng Li , Stijn Wuyts

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

We present a framework for modelling the star-formation histories of galaxies as a stochastic process. We define this stochastic process through a power spectrum density with a functional form of a broken power-law. Star-formation histories…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-05 Neven Caplar , Sandro Tacchella

We present an integrated study of star formation and galactic stellar mass assembly from z=0.05-1.5 and galactic metallicity evolution from z=0.05-0.9 using a very large and highly spectroscopically complete sample selected by rest-frame…

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