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We investigate the relationship between stellar mass, metallicity and gas content for a magnitude- and volume-limited sample of 260 nearby late-type galaxies in different environments, from isolated galaxies to Virgo cluster members. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. M. Hughes , L. Cortese , A. Boselli , G. Gavazzi , J. I. Davies

We analyze the reliability of oxygen abundances and ionization parameters obtained from different diagnostic diagrams. For this, we compiled from the literature observational emission line intensities and oxygen abundance of 446…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 O. L. Dors , Angela Krabbe , Guillermo F. Hagele , Enrique Perez-Montero

We use a sample of 154 observations of 124 H II regions that have measurements of both Te[O III] and Te[N II], compiled from the literature, to explore the behaviour of the Te[O III]-Te[N II] temperature relation. We confirm that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 K. Z. Arellano-Córdova , M. Rodríguez

The gas metallicity of galaxies is often estimated using strong emission lines such as the optical lines of [OIII] and [OII]. The most common measure is "R23", defined as ([OII]$\lambda$$\lambda$3726, 3729 +…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Tianxing Jiang , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Huan Yang

Chemical abundances are key tracers of the cycle of baryons driving the evolution of galaxies. Most measurements of interstellar medium (ISM) abundance and metallicity gradients in galaxies are based, however, on model-dependent strong-line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Amir H. Khoram , Francesco Belfiore

We explore the evolution of the Stellar Mass-Star Formation Rate-Metallicity Relation using a set of 256 COSMOS and GOODS galaxies in the redshift range 1.90 < z < 2.35. We present the galaxies' rest-frame optical emission-line fluxes…

We report J-band MOSFIRE spectroscopy of a low-mass (log$(M_*/M_\odot)=8.62^{+0.10}_{-0.06}$) star-forming galaxy at $z=0.997$ showing the detection of [NII] and [SII] alongside a strong H$\alpha$ line. We derive a gas-phase metallicity of…

We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range $z=0-3.3$ using samples of $\sim300$ galaxies at $z\sim2.3$ and $\sim150$ galaxies at $z\sim3.3$ from the MOSDEF survey. This analysis crucially utilizes…

In an earlier paper we modeled the far-infrared emission from a star-forming galaxy using the photoionisation code CLOUDY and presented metallicity sensitive diagnostics based on far-infrared fine structure line ratios. Here, we focus on…

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…

Although measuring the gas metallicity in galaxies at various redshifts is crucial to constrain galaxy evolutionary scenarios, only rest-frame optical emission lines have been generally used to measure the metallicity. This has prevented us…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tohru Nagao , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Hideo Matsuhara

We have analyzed 17 early-type galaxies, 13 ellipticals and 4 S0's, observed with Suzaku, and investigated metal abundances (O, Mg, Si, and Fe) and abundance ratios (O/Fe, Mg/Fe, and Si/Fe) in the interstellar medium (ISM). The emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Saori Konami , Kyoko Matsushita , Ryo Nagino , Toru Tamagawa

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…

Using the near-IR spectroscopy of the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey, we investigate the role of local environment in the gas-phase metallicity of galaxies. The local environment measurements are derived from accurate and…

The stellar mass-metallicity relation ($M_* - Z$, MZR) indicates that the metallicities of galaxies increase with increasing stellar masses. The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) suggests that the galaxies with higher star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Yulong Gao , Min Bao , Qirong Yuan , Xu Kong , Hu Zou , Xu Zhou , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Zhixiong Liang , Chi Huang

We measured the oxygen abundances of the warm (T$\sim 10^{4}K$) phase of gas in seven early-type galaxies through long-slit observations. A template spectra was constructed from galaxies void of warm gas and subtracted from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alex E. Athey , Joel N. Bregman

Low-metallicity galaxies may provide key insights into the evolutionary history of galaxies. Galaxies with strong emission lines and high equivalent widths (rest-frame EW(H-beta) > 30 A) are ideal candidates for the lowest metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-13 Isaac H. Laseter , Amy J. Barger , Lennox L. Cowie , Anthony J. Taylor

We present a new method for inferring the metallicity (Z) and ionization parameter (q) of HII regions and star-forming galaxies using strong nebular emission lines (SEL). We use Bayesian inference to derive the joint and marginalized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Guillermo A. Blanc , Lisa Kewley , Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Michael A. Dopita

We present results from deep Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations of 28 metal-poor, strongly star-forming galaxies selected from the DEEP2 Galaxy Survey. By modelling infrared and optical photometry, we derive stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Weldon , Chun Ly , Michael Cooper

We characterize, for the first time, the average extended emission in multiple lines ([OII], [OIII], and Hbeta) around a statistical sample of 560 galaxies at z~0.25-0.85. By stacking the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) 3D data…