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Scaling relations of metallicity (O/H), star formation rate (SFR), and stellar mass give important insight on galaxy evolution. They are obeyed by most galaxies in the Local Universe and also at high redshift. In a companion paper, we…

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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…

Galaxy evolution emerges from the balance between cosmic gas accretion, fueling star formation, and supernova (SN) feedback, regulating the metal enrichment. Hence, the stellar mass ($M_*$) - gas metallicity relation (MZR) is key to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-25 A. Pallottini , A. Ferrara , S. Gallerani , L. Sommovigo , S. Carniani , L. Vallini , M. Kohandel , G. Venturi

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

(Abridged) The knowledge of the number and of the physical nature of low-metallicity massive galaxies is crucial for the determination and interpretation of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR). Using VLT-ISAAC near-infrared (NIR)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-29 C. Maier , B. L. Ziegler , S. J. Lilly , T. Contini , E. Perez Montero , F. Lamareille , M. Bolzonella , E. Le Floc'h

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

This work aims to provide a first insight into the mass-metallicity (MZ) relation of star-forming galaxies at redshift z~1.4. To reach this goal, we present a first set of nine VVDS galaxies observed with the NIR integral-field spectrograph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Queyrel , T. Contini , E. Perez-Montero , B. Garilli , O. Le Fevre , M. Kissler-Patig , B. Epinat , D. Vergani , L. Tresse , P. Amram , M. Lemoine-Busserolle

A full appreciation of the role played by gas metallicity (Z), star-formation rate (SFR), and stellar mass is fundamental to understanding how galaxies form and evolve. The connections between these three parameters at different redshifts…

The empirical anti-correlation between gas-phase metallicity and star formation rate (SFR) at a fixed stellar mass, known as the fundamental metallicity relation (FMR), is commonly interpreted as an equilibrium state in the interplay…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Danial Langeroodi , Jens Hjorth

The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) is a postulated correlation between galaxy stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and gas-phase metallicity. At its core, this relation posits that offsets from the mass-metallicity relation…

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 metallicity of local galaxies is tightly related not only to stellar mass, i.e. the mass-metallicity relation, but also to the star formation rate (SFR) through the so-called fundamental metallicity relation (FMR); more active galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-03 Giovanni Cresci , Filippo Mannucci , Mirko Curti

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…

[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

Metallicity is one of the crucial factors that determine stellar evolution. To characterize the properties of stellar populations one needs to know the fraction of stars forming at different metallicities. Knowing how this fraction evolves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-29 Martyna Chruslinska , Gijs Nelemans

We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback in Realistic Environment (FIRE) project to study the galaxy mass-metallicity relations (MZR) from z=0-6. These simulations include explicit models of the multi-phase…

Current galaxy observations suggest that a roughly linear correlation exists between the [CII] emission and the star formation rate, either as spatially-resolved or integrated quantities. Observationally, this correlation seems to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Alessandro Lupi , Stefano Bovino

In this work we study the stellar mass -- metallicity relation (MZR) of an extended sample of star-forming galaxies in the local Universe and its possible dependence with the star formation rate (SFR). A sample of $\sim$195000 Sloan Digital…

We present the stellar mass-stellar metallicity relationship (MZR) in the Cl0024+1654 galaxy cluster at z~0.4 using full spectrum stellar population synthesis modeling of individual quiescent galaxies. The lower limit of our stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Nicha Leethochawalit , Evan N. Kirby , Sean M. Moran , Richard S. Ellis , Tommaso Treu

We have observed a sample of typical z=1 star forming galaxies, selected from the HiZELS survey, with the new KMOS near-infrared, multi-IFU instrument on the VLT, in order to obtain their dynamics and metallicity gradients. The majority of…