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This paper explores the gas metallicity gradients in a sample of 25 nearby galaxies using new Integral Field Spectroscopy observations from the Metal-THINGS survey. We derive and study the resolved diffuse ionised gas content, Baldwin,…

We analyzed the relation between the corotation radii and the galactic radii at which breaks or changes of slope of the metallicity gradients occur in spiral galaxies. With this purpose we compiled the results from the literature on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sergio Scarano , Jacques R. D. Lépine

We present an unbiased method for evaluating the ranges of ages and metallicities which are allowed by the photometric properties of the stellar populations that dominate the light of early-type galaxies in clusters. The method is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Ferreras , S. Charlot , J. Silk

We have constructed a family of simple models for spiral galaxy evolution to allow us to investigate observational trends in star formation history with galaxy parameters. The models are used to generate broad band colours from which ages…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric F. Bell , Richard G. Bower

The distribution of metals within a galaxy traces the baryon cycle and the buildup of galactic disks, but the detailed gas phase metallicity distribution remains poorly sampled. We have determined the gas phase oxygen abundances for 7,138…

The stellar metallicity and its gradient pose constraints to the formation and evolution of galaxies. This is a study of the metallicity gradient of the LMC, SMC and M33 galaxies derived from their asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria-Rosa L. Cioni

We used near-infrared integral field spectroscopic observations from the AMAZE and LSD programs to constrain the metallicity in a sample of 40 star forming galaxies at 3<z<5 (most of which at z~3.4). We measure metallicities by exploiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Troncoso , R. Maiolino , V. Sommariva , G. Cresci , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , M. Meneghetti , A. Grazian , A. Cimatti , A. Fontana , T. Nagao , L. Pentericci

We present an analysis of the stellar populations in a sample of ~7000 galaxies from the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). We derive ages and metallicities using stellar population models. We also derive dynamical masses and dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert N. Proctor , Philip Lah , Duncan A. Forbes , Matthew Colless , Warrick Couch

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…

Open clusters are known as excellent tools for various topics in Galactic research. For example, they allow accurately tracing the chemical structure of the Galactic disc. However, the metallicity is known only for a rather low percentage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , U. Heiter , C. Soubiran

Recent spatially resolved observations of galaxies at z=0.6-3 reveal that high-redshift galaxies show complex kinematics and a broad distribution of gas-phase metallicity gradients. To understand these results, we use a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-18 Xiangcheng Ma , Philip F. Hopkins , Robert Feldmann , Paul Torrey , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Dusan Keres

A number of Local Group dwarf galaxies are known to have two spatially segregated stellar metallicity populations, a centrally concentrated metal-rich population and a more extended metal-poor population. In this work we discuss mechanisms…

The distribution of stellar abundances along the Galactic disk is an important constraint for models of chemical evolution and Galaxy formation. In this study we derive radial gradients of C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, as well as S, from abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Daflon , Katia Cunha

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

In this letter we examine the evolution of the radial metallicity gradient induced by secular processes, in the disk of an $N$-body Milky Way-like galaxy. We assign a [Fe/H] value to each particle of the simulation according to an initial,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Curir , A. L. Serra , A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , P. Re Fiorentin , A. Diaferio

We probe the stellar population age and metallicity distributions in nearby elliptical galaxies over the largest extension to date. Long-slit spectroscopy is made by using the spectrograph SCORPIO of the 6-m telescope of the Special…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Baes , O. K. Sil'chenko , A. V. Moiseev , E. A. Manakova

Recent work suggests that galaxy evolution, and the build-up of stellar mass (M*) over cosmic time, is characterized by changes with redshift of star formation rate (SFR) and oxygen abundance (O/H). In a companion paper, we have compiled a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Leslie Hunt , Pratika Dayal , Laura Magrini , Andrea Ferrara

Stellar metallicity gradients in the outer regions of galaxies are a critical tool for disentangling the contributions of in-situ and ex-situ formed stars. In the two-phase galaxy formation scenario, the initial gas collapse creates steep…

The evolution of radial gradients of metallicity in disk galaxies and its relation with the disk formation are not well understood. Theoretical models of galactic chemical evolution make contrasting predictions about the time evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Magrini , Edvige Corbelli , Daniele Galli

Gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies provide important clues to those galaxies' formation histories. Using SDSS-IV MaNGA data, we previously demonstrated that gas metallicity gradients vary systematically and significantly across the…