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In this paper, we take advantage of the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) semi-analytic model to analyse the origin of secondary dependencies in the local galaxy mass - gas metallicity relation. Our model reproduces quite well the trends…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Fabio Fontanot , Michaela Hirschmann

We employ the high-redshift suite of FIRE-2 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations to investigate the evolution of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in galaxies in the epoch of reionization (EoR). Our sample consists of 22…

Open clusters offer a unique possibility to study the time evolution of the radial metallicity gradients of several elements in our Galaxy, because they span large intervals in age and Galactocentric distance, and both quantities can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Magrini , Paola Sestito , Sofia Randich , Daniele Galli

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

By means of chemical evolution models of different morphological types, we study the mass-metallicity (MZ) relation and its evolution with redshift. Our aim is to understand the role of galaxies of different morphological types in the MZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Calura , A. Pipino , C. Chiappini , F. Matteucci , R. Maiolino , N. Menci , -

Radial metallicity gradients are fundamental to understanding galaxy formation and evolution. In our high-resolution simulation of a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue, we analyze the linearity, scatter, spatial coherence, and age-related…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Sven Buder , Tobias Buck , Qian-Hui Chen , Kathryn Grasha

Gas-phase metallicity in interacting and merging galaxies offers key insights into their star formation processes and evolutionary histories. This study investigates the spatial evolution of gas-phase metallicity (i.e, oxygen abundance, 12…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Hsi-An Pan , Lihwai Lin , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros , Bau-Ching Hsieh

Radial migration is defined as the change in guiding centre radius of stars and gas caused by gains or losses of angular momentum that result from gravitational interaction with non-axisymmetric structure. This has been shown to have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-08 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

Observations show that radial metallicity gradients in disk galaxies are relatively shallow, if not flat, especially at large galactocentric distances and for galaxies in the high-redshift universe. Given that star formation and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Chao-Chin Yang , Mark Krumholz

We analyze the redshift evolution of the mass-metallicity relation in a sample of 110 Damped Ly$\alpha$ absorbers spanning the redshift range $z=0.11-5.06$ and find that the zero-point of the correlation changes significantly with redshift.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Moller , J. P. U. Fynbo , C. Ledoux , K. K. Nilsson

We develop a simple analytical model that tracks galactic metallicities governed by star formation and feedback to gain insight from the observed galaxy stellar mass-metallicity relations over a large range of stellar masses and redshifts.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Yu Lu , Guillermo A. Blanc , Andrew Benson

Disk galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to experience gas flows carrying matter toward their centers. This paper investigates the role of these radial gas flows in models of Galactic chemical evolution (GCE). We follow five different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 James W. Johnson

Aims. Using a suite of cosmological chemodynamical disc galaxy simulations, we assess how (a) radial metallicity gradients evolve with scaleheight; (b) the vertical metallicity gradients change through the thick disc; and (c) the vertical…

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…

In this contribution we report our recent investigation of the gas metallicity in active galactic nuclei and its dependence on luminosity and redshift. We compile large spectroscopic datasets of broad-line and narrow-line AGNs, and compare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tohru Nagao , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi

We have measured the mass of metals in the molecular gas in 13 submillimetre galaxies at z~4 in which the gas, based on previous observations, lies in a cold rotating disk. We measured the metal masses using either the submillimetre line or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-24 Stephen Eales , Haley Gomez , Loretta Dunne , Simon Dye , Matthew W. L. Smith

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…

We investigate the relation between stellar mass ($M_\star$), star formation rate (SFR), and metallicity ($Z$) of galaxies, so called the fundamental metallicity relation, in the galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuu Niino

The evolution and distribution of metals within galaxies are critical for understanding galactic evolution and star formation processes, but the mechanisms responsible for shaping this distribution remain uncertain. In this study, we carry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-03 Chuhan Zhang , Zefeng Li , Zipeng Hu , Mark R. Krumholz

This paper investigates the evolution of the dust-to-metal ratio in galaxies based on a simple evolution model for the amount of metal and dust with infall. We take into account grain formation in stellar mass-loss gas, grain growth by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Akio K. Inoue
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