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We present our recently developed 3-dimensional chemodynamical code for galaxy evolution. This code follows the evolution of different galactic components like stars, dark matter and different components of the interstellar medium (ISM),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Berczik , G. Hensler , Ch. Theis , R. Spurzem

We have computed a set of multiphase chemical evolution models in which the radial mass distribution of each theoretical galaxy is calculated using the Universal Rotation Curve from Persic, Salucci & Steel (1996). We obtain the chemical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Molla , A. I. Diaz , F. Ferrini

A generalization of the multiphase chemical evolution model applied to a wide set of theoretical galaxies is shown. This set of models has been computed by using the so-called Universal Rotation Curve from Persic, Salucci & Steel to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mercedes Molla , Angeles I. Diaz

In recent years, Galactic archaeology has become a particularly vibrant field of astronomy, with its main focus set on the oldest stars of our Galaxy. In most cases, these stars have been identified as the most metal-poor. However, the…

This paper presents the first results from a model for chemical evolution that can be applied to N-body cosmological simulations and quantitatively compared to measured stellar abundances from large astronomical surveys. This model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-29 Brian D. Crosby , Brian W. O'Shea , Timothy C. Beers , Jason Tumlinson

We follow the chemical evolution of the Galaxy for the s elements using a Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model, as already discussed by Travaglio et al. (1999, 2001, 2004), with a full updated network and refined asymptotic giant branch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Serminato , R. Gallino , C. Travaglio , S. Bisterzo , O. Straniero

We present the updated version of the code used to compute stellar evolutionary tracks in Padova. It is the result of a thorough revision of the major input physics, together with the inclusion of the pre-main sequence phase, not present in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 A. Bressan , P. Marigo , L. Girardi , B. Salasnich , C. Dal Cero , S. Rubele , A. Nanni

Chemical evolution models are powerful tools for interpreting stellar abundance surveys and understanding galaxy evolution. However, their predictions depend heavily on the treatment of inflow, outflow, star formation efficiency (SFE), the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Brett H. Andrews , David H. Weinberg , Ralph Schönrich , Jennifer A. Johnson

We present a new analytical galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model with gas inflow, internally caused outflow, and extra gas loss after a period of time. The latter mimics the ram pressure stripping of a dwarf satellite galaxy near the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Kateryna A. Kvasova , Evan N. Kirby

We present a theoretical method for solving the chemical evolution of galaxies, by assuming an instantaneous recycling approximation for chemical elements restored by massive stars and the Delay Time Distribution formalism for the delayed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Francesca Matteucci , Emanuele Spitoni

The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters, an HST Treasury Project, will deliver high quality, homogeneous photometry of 65 globular clusters. This paper introduces a new collection of stellar evolution tracks and isochrones suitable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 A. Dotter , B. Chaboyer , D. Jevremovic , E. Baron , J. W. Ferguson , A. Sarajedini , J. Anderson

We present the first isotopic abundances of both $^{13}$CO and C$^{18}$O in solar twin stars and test the results against several galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models with different nucleosynthesis prescriptions. First, we compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 David R. Coria , Ian J. M. Crossfield , Joshua Lothringer , Becky Flores , Nikos Prantzos , Richard Freedman

We use our unified chemical and spectrophotometric evolutionary synthesis code to describe galaxies of various Hubble types. With stellar evolutionary tracks and element yields for 5 different metallicities we follow the spectrophotometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Fritze - v. Alvensleben , U. Lindner , K. J. Fricke

The description of the tempo-spatial evolution of the composition of cosmic gas on galactic scales is called 'modelling galactic chemical evolution'. It aims to use knowledge about sources of nucleosynthesis and how they change the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Roland Diehl , Nikos Prantzos

We introduce the star cluster evolution code Evolve Me A Cluster of StarS (EMACSS), a simple yet physically motivated computational model that describes the evolution of some fundamental properties of star clusters in static tidal fields.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Poul E. R. Alexander , Mark Gieles

In order to better understand the relationship between feedback and galactic chemical evolution, we have developed a new model for stellar feedback at grid resolutions of only a few parsecs in global disk simulations, using the adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Andrew Emerick , Greg L. Bryan , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We introduce version two of the fast star cluster evolution code Evolve Me A Cluster of StarS (EMACSS). The first version (Alexander & Gieles) assumed that cluster evolution is balanced for the majority of the life-cycle, meaning that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Mark Gieles , Poul Alexander , Henny Lamers , Holger Baumgardt

The last decade showed an impressive observational effort from the photometric and spectroscopic point of view for ancient stellar clusters in our Galaxy and beyond. The theoretical interpretation of these new observational results requires…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 M. Dell'Omodarme , G. Valle , S. Degl'Innocenti , P. G. Prada Moroni

We present some preliminary results obtained with a new galactic chemodynamical tool under development. In the framework of non-instantaneous recycling approach, we follow the interactions due to star formation and feedback processes. One…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Champavert , Hervé Wozniak

We present a set of 144 galactic chemical evolution models applied to a Milky Way analogue, computed using four sets of low and intermediate star nucleosynthetic yields, six massive star yield compilations, and six functional forms for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Mercedes Mollá , Oscar Cavichia , Marta Gavilán , Brad K. Gibson