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Local galaxies follow scaling relations between mass and stellar population properties such as age and metallicity, which encode key information on their evolutionary histories. We revise these relations using the largest spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 D. Mattolini , S. Zibetti , A. R. Gallazzi , L. Scholz-Diaz , J. Pratesi

We continue the exploration of the BaLROG (Bars in Low Redshift Optical Galaxies) sample: 16 large mosaics of barred galaxies observed with the integral field unit SAURON. We quantify the influence of bars on the composition of the stellar…

Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is imprinted in the current kinematics and age-metallicity…

A simple model for the evolution of disc galaxies is presented. We adopt three numbers from observations of the Milky Way disc, the local surface mass density, the stellar scale length (of the assumedly exponential disc) and the amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We analysed the chemodynamical evolution of the Galactic disc using precise [Mg/Fe] abundances from a previous study and accurate Gaia data. For this purpose, we estimated ages and dynamical properties for 366 MSTO solar neighbourhood stars…

The distribution of stellar metallicities within and across galaxies is an excellent relic of the chemical evolution across cosmic time. We present a detailed analysis of spatially resolved stellar populations based on $>2.6$ million…

We present a technique that permits the analysis of stellar population gradients in a relatively low cost way compared to IFU surveys analyzing a vastly larger samples as well as out to larger radii. We developed a technique to analyze…

One important key in understanding a galaxy's evolution is to study the consequences of its past dynamical interactions that influenced its shape. By measuring the metallicity distribution of stellar populations with different ages, one can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Abinaya O. Omkumar , Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , Smitha Subramanian , Jos de Bruijne , Aparna Nair , Bruno Dias

We focus on the resolved stellar populations of one early- and four transition-type dwarf galaxies in the Sculptor group, with the aim to examine the potential presence of population gradients and place constraints on their mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-14 S. Lianou , E. Grebel , G. S. Da Costa , M. Rejkuba , H. Jerjen , A. Koch

The evolution of galaxies is imprinted in their stellar populations. Several stellar population properties in massive early-type galaxies have been shown to correlate with intrinsic galaxy properties like the galaxy's central velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 A. Feldmeier-Krause , I. Lonoce , W. L. Freedman

The radial metallicity distribution of the Milky Way's disc is an important observational constraint for models of the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. It informs our understanding of the chemical enrichment of the Galactic disc and…

We investigate the radial metallicity gradients and azimuthal metallicity distributions on the Galactocentric $X$--$Y$ plane using mono-temperature stellar populations selected from LAMOST MRS young stellar sample. The estimated radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Chun Wang , Haibo Yuan , Maosheng Xiang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu

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

Photometry and long-slit spectroscopy are presented for 14 S0 and spiral galaxies of the Fornax, Eridanus and Pegasus cluster, and NGC 7582 group. The structural parameters of the galaxies are derived from the R-band images by performing a…

We present 80 stellar and ionised gas velocity maps from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey in order to characterize the kinematic orientation of non-interacting galaxies. The study of galaxies in isolation is a key…

AIMS:The aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the stellar populations and the metallicity distribution in the Galactic bulge. We study the entire stellar population, but also retrieve information using only the red clump…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 E. Vanhollebeke , M. A. T. Groenewegen , L. Girardi

Stellar radial migration plays an important role in reshaping a galaxy's structure and the radial distribution of stellar population properties. In this work, we revisit reported observational evidence for radial migration and quantify its…

In some scenarios for the formation of the Milky Way bulge the stellar population at the edges of the boxy bulge may be younger than those on the minor axis, or close to the Galactic center. So far the only bulge region where deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Valenti , M. Zoccali , A. Renzini , T. M. Brown , O. Gonzalez , D. Minniti , Victor P. Debattista , L. Mayer

The stellar velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, is a quantity of crucial importance for spiral galaxies, where it enters fundamental dynamical processes such as gravitational instability and disc heating. Here we analyse a sample of 34 nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Keoikantse Moses Mogotsi , Alessandro B. Romeo

We examine the origin of radial and vertical gradients in the age/metallicity of the stellar component of a galaxy disc formed in the APOSTLE cosmological hydrody- namical simulations. Some of these gradients resemble those in the Milky…