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Tadpole galaxies, with a bright peripheral clump on a faint tail, are morphological types unusual in the nearby universe but very common early on. Low mass local tadpoles were identified and studied photometrically in a previous work, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Sanchez Almeida , C. Munoz-Tunon , D. M. Elmegreen , B. G. Elmegreen , J. Mendez-Abreu

The sensitive infrared telescopes, Spitzer and Herschel, have been used to target low-metallicity star-forming galaxies, allowing us to investigate the properties of their interstellar medium (ISM) in unprecedented detail. Interpretation of…

The variations of the metallicity and ionization parameter in HII regions are usually thought to be the dominant factors that produce the variations we see in the observed emission line spectra. There is an increasing amount of evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-16 Xihan Ji , Renbin Yan

The distribution of metals in the Galaxy provides important information about galaxy formation and evolution. HII regions are the most luminous objects in the Milky Way at mid-infrared to radio wavelengths and can be seen across the entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Dana S. Balser , Robert T. Rood , T. M. Bania , L. D. Anderson

The metallicity and its relationship with other galactic properties is a fundamental probe of the evolution of galaxies. In this work, we select about 750,000 star-forming spatial pixels from 1122 blue galaxies in the MaNGA survey to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Yulong Gao , Enci Wang , Xu Kong , Zesen Lin , Guilin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Qing Liu , Ning Hu , Berzaf Berhane Teklu , Xinkai Chen , Qinyuan Zhao

We use N-body chemo-dynamic simulations to study the coupling between morphology, kinematics and metallicity of the bar/bulge region of our Galaxy. We make qualitative comparisons of our results with available observations and find very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 E. Athanassoula , S. A. Rodionov , N. Prantzos

The vertical metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk offers valuable insights into the disk's formation and chemical evolution over time. We utilized the LAMOST-LRS young stellar sample to investigate this gradient and found that it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Gaohuan Long , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Chun Wang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang

We study the physical properties of the ionized gas in local disks using the sample of 38 nearby $\sim10^{8.5-11.2}$M$_\odot$ Star-Forming Main Sequence (SFMS) galaxies observed so far as part of the MUSE Atlas of Disks (MAD). Specifically,…

Nearby galaxies are ideal places to study in detail metallicity gradients and their time evolution. We consider chemical abundances of a new sample of \hii\ regions complemented with previous literature data-sets. We compare \hii\ region…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Laura Magrini , Letizia Stanghellini , Edvige Corbelli , Daniele Galli , Eva Villaver

We present chemical evolution models of the Galactic disk with different Z-dependent yields. We find that a moderate mass loss rate for massive stars of solar metallicity produces an excellent fit to the observed C/H and C/O gradients of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-08 Leticia Carigi , Manuel Peimbert

We use integral field spectroscopic (IFS) observations from the Gemini North Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS-N) to study the central H II region in a nearby blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy NGC 4449. The IFS data enable us to explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Nimisha Kumari , Bethan L. James , Mike J. Irwin

We revisit the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation of low- and high-redshift galaxies by using a sample of local analogs of high-redshift galaxies. These analogs share the same location of the UV-selected star-forming galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Fuyan Bian , Lisa Kewley , Michael Dopita , Guillermo Blanc

The chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge is treated here in the context of an inside-out model for the Galaxy formation. We assume that this central region evolved even faster than the Galactic halo and test the effect of changing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Matteucci , D. Romano , P. Molaro

The radial metallicity distribution in the Galactic thin disc represents a crucial constraint for modelling disc formation and evolution. Open clusters allow us to derive both the radial metallicity distribution and its evolution over time.…

We present infrared observations of 66 starburst galaxies over a wide range of oxygen abundances, to measure how metallicity affects their dust properties. The data include imaging and spectroscopy from the Spitzer Space Telescope,…

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

Using the high resolution Milky Way-like model from Auriga simulation we study the chemical properties of the Galactic bulge, focusing on the metallicity difference between stars on the near side (in front of the Galactic center) and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Bin-Hui Chen , Zhao-Yu Li

Through a homogeneous analysis of spectroscopic literature data of red giant stars, we determine the radial metallicity profiles of 30 dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. We explore correlations between the calculated metallicity gradients…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 S. Taibi , G. Battaglia , R. Leaman , A. Brooks , C. Riggs , F. Munshi , Y. Revaz , P. Jablonka

We collected a sample of 100 galaxies for which different observers have determined colour indices of globular cluster candidates. The sample includes representatives of galaxies of various morphological types and different luminosities.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Helina Eerik , Peeter Tenjes

Measurements of high-velocity clouds' metallicities provide important clues about their origins, and hence on whether they play a role in fueling ongoing star formation in the Galaxy. However, accurate interpretation of these measurements…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 David B. Henley , Jeffrey A. Gritton , Robin L. Shelton