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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an excellent laboratory to study the formation of solar-mass stars in a low-metallicity environment, similar to the conditions expected in the early phases of galactic evolution. Here we present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentin D. Ivanov , Ray Jayawardhana

We investigate the stellar Mass-Metallicity Relation (MZR) using a sample of 637 quiescent galaxies with 10.4 <= log(M*/M ) < 11.7 selected from the LEGA-C survey at 0.6 <= z <= 1. We derive mass-weighted stellar metallicities using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-09 D. Bevacqua , P. Saracco , A. Boecker , G. D'Ago , G. De Lucia , R. De Propris , F. La Barbera , A. Pasquali , C. Spiniello , C. Tortora

Extremely metal poor stars have been the focus of much recent attention owing to the expectation that their chemical abundances can shed light on the metal and dust yields of the earliest supernovae. We present our most realistic simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Jeremy S. Ritter , Chalence Safranek-Shrader , Milos Milosavljevic , Volker Bromm

Metal-poor stars provide information on the characteristics and chemical evolution of the halo population of the Galaxy, the first epoch of star formation and Galaxy formation (not just locally but with relevance to high-redshift objects),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean G. Ryan

Massive stars played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. They formed with the first halos and started the re-ionisation. It is therefore very important to understand their evolution. In this review, we first recall the effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Hirschi , C. Chiappini , G. Meynet , A. Maeder , S. Ekstrom

The formation of stars is a key process in the early universe with far reaching consequences for further cosmic evolution. While stars forming from truly primordial gas are thought to be considerably more massive than our Sun, stars in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) offer an outstanding variety of young stellar associations, in which large samples of low-mass stars (with masses less than 1 solar mass) currently in the act of formation can be resolved and explored…

Metal-poor stars in the Milky Way are local relics of the epoch of the first stars and the first galaxies. However, a low metallicity does not prove that a star formed in this ancient era, as metal-poor stars form over a range of redshift…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Andrew R. Casey , Kevin C. Schlaufman

The ejecta of the first probably very massive stars polluted the Big Bang primordial element mix with the first heavier elements. The resulting ultra metal-poor abundance distribution provided the initial conditions for the second stars of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-30 Falk Herwig

Stellar metallicity encodes the integrated effects of gas inflow, star formation, and feedback-driven outflow, yet its connection to galaxy structure remains poorly understood. Using SDSS-IV MaNGA, we present the direct observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Kai Wang

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…

We present evolutionary models of zero-metallicity very massive objects, with initial masses in the range 120 Msun -- 1000 Msun, covering their quiescent evolution up to central carbon ignition. In the attempt of exploring the possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Marigo , C. Chiosi , R. -P. Kudritzki

Very metal-poor stars contain crucial information on the Milky Way's infancy. In our previous study \citep{Plotnikova_2022} we derived a mean age of $\sim$ 13.7 Gyr for a sample of these stars in the Sun's vicinity. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Anastasiia Plotnikova , Giovanni Carraro , Sandro Villanova , Sergio Ortolani

Mass-loss from massive stars is fundamental to stellar and galactic evolution and enrichment of the interstellar medium. Reliable determination of mass-loss rate is dependent upon unravelling details of massive star outflows, including…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Timothy N. Parsons , Raman K. Prinja , Derck L. Massa , Alex W. Fullerton

Ancient, very metal-poor stars offer a window into the earliest epochs of galaxy formation and assembly. We combine data from the H3 Spectroscopic Survey and Gaia to measure metallicities, abundances of $\alpha$ elements, stellar ages, and…

Accurate determination of mass-loss rates from massive stars is important to understanding stellar and galactic evolution and enrichment of the interstellar medium. Large-scale structure and variability in stellar winds have significant…

We study the stellar population history and chemical evolution of the Milky Way (MW) in a hierarchical LCDM model for structure formation. Using a Monte Carlo method based on the semi-analytical EPS formalism, we reconstruct the merger tree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Salvadori , R. Schneider , A. Ferrara

We discuss the star formation history of the Galaxy, based on the observations of extremely metal-poor stars (EMP) in the Galactic halo, to gain an insight into the evolution and structure formation in the early universe. The initialmass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yutaka Komiya , Takuma Suda , Asao Habe , Masayuki Y. Fujimoto

The structure and dynamics of the star-forming disk of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) have long confounded us. The SMC is widely used as a prototype for galactic physics at low metallicity, and yet we fundamentally lack an understanding…

Low metallicity stars give rise to unique spectacular transients and are of immense interest for understanding stellar evolution. Their importance has only grown further with the recent detections of mergers of stellar mass black holes that…