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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…

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We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 $<$ $R$ $<$ 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize the median, dispersion and skewness of the distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Yaqian Wu , Maosheng Xiang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Chengdong Li , Yaguang Li , Yang Huang

We use the MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic survey of low-redshift galaxies to compare the stellar populations of the bulge and disc components, identified from their Sersic profiles, for various samples of galaxies. Bulge dominated…

Using idealised N-body simulations of a Milky Way-sized disc galaxy, we qualitatively study how the metallicity distributions of the thin disc star particles are modified by the formation of the bar and spiral arm structures. The thin disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 D. Kawata , R. J. J. Grand , B. K. Gibson , L. Casagrande , J. A. S. Hunt , C. B. Brook

We present radial stellar population parameters for a subsample of 12 galaxies from the 36 isolated early-type galaxies of Reda et al. Using new long-slit spectra, central values and radial gradients for the stellar age, metallicity [Z/H]…

Scaling relations between galactic parameters represent key pieces of evidence for investigating the processes of galaxy formation and evolution. In most studies, these relations have been obtained for large portions of the galaxies (i.e.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 Patrícia da Silva , R. B. Menezes , T. V. Ricci , F. Combes , F. Pinna , B. Barbuy

As galaxies evolve over time, the orbits of their constituent stars are expected to change in size and shape, moving stars away from their birth radius. Radial gas flows are also expected. Spiral arms and bars in galaxies are predicted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-21 M. E. Wisz , Karen L. Masters , Kathryne J. Daniel , David V. Stark , Francesco Belfiore

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

We derive stellar metallicities, light-weighted ages and stellar masses for a magnitude-limited sample of 175,128 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Two (SDSS DR2). We compute median-likelihood estimates of these…

Selecting centrally quiescent galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to create high signal-to-noise (>100) stacked spectra with minimal emission line contamination, we accurately and precisely model the central stellar…

Stellar ages are a crucial component to studying the evolution of the Milky Way. Using Gaia DR2 distance estimates, it is now possible to estimate stellar ages for a larger volume of evolved stars through isochrone matching. This work…

We calculate the ages, orbits and phase-space coordinates for a sample of $\sim$4 million LAMOST and Gaia stars. The ages are crossmatched and compared with values from two other popular age catalogs which derive the ages using different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 John J. Vickers , Juntai Shen , Zhao-Yu Li

We present a study of internal stellar population gradients in early-type cluster galaxies. Using the VLT VIMOS integral field unit, we observed 19 galaxies in the core of the Shapley Supercluster (z = 0.048). The radial trends in nine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. D. Rawle , Russell J. Smith , J. R. Lucey

Radial migration is an important process in the evolution of the Galactic disk. The metallicity gradient of open clusters and its outliers provide an effective way to probe for this process. In this work, we compile metallicity, age, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Haopeng Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao

We obtained stellar ages and metallicities via spectrum fitting for a sample of 575 bulges with spectra available from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The structural properties of the galaxies have been studied in detail in Gadotti (2009b)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paula Coelho , Dimitri A. Gadotti

We present the first results of a study where we determine the metallicity distribution function in the Galactic disks as a function of height above the Galactic plane. Observations in the Stromgren photometric system enables us to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-11 Anna S. Arnadottir , Sofia Feltzing , Ingemar Lundstrom

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

(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 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

This paper presents the mass assembly time scales of nearby galaxies observed by CALIFA at the 3.5m telescope in Calar Alto. We apply the fossil record method of the stellar populations to the complete sample of the 3rd CALIFA data release,…