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The stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients from the fiducial late-type galaxy simulation of Stinson et al. (2010) are presented. Over 1-3 scalelengths, gradients are shown to flatten with time, consistent with empirical evidence…

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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

The relation between galaxy stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity is a sensitive diagnostic of the main processes that drive galaxy evolution, namely cosmological gas inflow, metal production in stars, and gas outflow via galactic winds.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Brett H. Andrews , Paul Martini

We utilize Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging and spectroscopy of ~53,000 star-forming galaxies at z~0.1 to study the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity. We derive gas-phase oxygen abundances and stellar masses using new…

The upcoming generation of optical spectrographs on four meter-class telescopes, with their huge multiplexing capabilities, excellent spectral resolution, and unprecedented wavelength coverage, will provide high-quality spectra for…

We measure the gas-phase oxygen abundances of ~3000 star-forming galaxies at z=0.05-0.75 using optical spectrophotometry from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES), a spectroscopic survey of I_AB<20.45 galaxies over 7.9 deg^2 in the…

This is the second paper of a series devoted to study the stellar content of early-type galaxies. The goal of the series is to set constraints on the evolutionary status of these objects. We use a new set of models which include an improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Sanchez-Blazquez , J. Gorgas , N. Cardiel , J. J. Gonzalez

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

Context: Galaxy metallicities have been measured to redshift z~2 by gas-phase oxygen abundances of the interstellar medium using the R23 and N2 methods. Galaxy stellar metallicities provide crucial data for chemical evolution models but…

We present stellar metallicities derived from Ca II triplet spectroscopy in over 350 red giant branch stars in 13 fields distributed in different positions in the SMC, ranging from $\sim$1\arcdeg\@ to $\sim$4\arcdeg\@ from its center. In…

Spectra of HII regions obtained with Gemini/GMOS are used to derive the radial metallicity gradients of four small, low-mass spiral galaxies. The analysis of the outer disk of one of them, NGC 1058, uncovers the characteristic flattening…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Fabio Bresolin

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

Long-slit spectra have been obtained with the Keck telescope for a sample of 11 early-type galaxies covering a wide range in luminosity and hence mass. Rotation velocity and velocity dispersions, together with 19 Lick line-strength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Sanchez-Blazquez , D. A. Forbes , J. Strader , J. Brodie , R. Proctor

We use a sample of 87 rest-frame UV-selected star-forming galaxies with mean spectroscopic redshift z=2.26 to study the correlation between metallicity and stellar mass at high redshift. Using stellar masses determined from SED fitting to…

A key open issue for galaxy evolution and formation models is the understanding of the different mechanisms of galaxy assembly at various cosmic epochs. The aim of this study is to derive the global and spatially-resolved metal content in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Queyrel , T. Contini , M. Kissler-Patig , B. Epinat , P. Amram , B. Garilli , O. Le Fevre , J. Moultaka , L. Paioro , L. Tasca , L. Tresse , D. Vergani , C. Lopez-Sanjuan , E. Perez-Montero

We present results from the largest CaII triplet line metallicity study of Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) field red giant stars to date, involving 3037 objects spread across approximately 37.5 sq. deg., centred on this galaxy. We find a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 P. D. Dobbie , A. A. Cole , A. Subramaniam , S. Keller

We perform population synthesis modelling of a magnitude-limited sample of 4391 Luminous Red Galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS DR4). We fit measured spectral indices using a large library of high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Barber , A. Meiksin , T. Murphy

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 study the detailed properties of the radial metallicity gradient in the stellar disk of our Galaxy to constrain its chemical and structural evolution. For this purpose we select and analyze $\sim$ 18,500 disk stars taken from two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Daisuke Toyouchi , Masashi Chiba

We analyze the optical continuum of star-forming galaxies in SDSS by fitting stacked spectra with stellar population synthesis models to investigate the relation between stellar mass, stellar metallicity, dust attenuation and star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 H. Jabran Zahid , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , Charlie Conroy , Brett Andrews , I-Ting Ho