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The empirical anti-correlation between gas-phase metallicity and star formation rate (SFR) at a fixed stellar mass, known as the fundamental metallicity relation (FMR), is commonly interpreted as an equilibrium state in the interplay…

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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

The stellar mass and metallicity are among the fundamental parameters of galaxies. An understanding of the interplay between those properties as well as their environmental dependence will give us a general picture of the physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. Lara-Lopez , A. M. Hopkins , A. Robotham , M. S. Owers , M. Colless , S. Brough , P. Norberg , O. Steele , E. N. Taylor , D. Thomas

The correlation between galaxy stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity, known as the mass-metallicity relation (MZR), gives key insights into the processes that govern galaxy evolution. However, unquantified observational and selection…

During the last three decades, many papers have reported the existence of a luminosity-metallicity or mass-metallicity (M-Z) relation for all kinds of galaxies: The more massive galaxies are also the ones with more metal-rich interstellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 N. Vale Asari , G. Stasinska , R. Cid Fernandes , J. M. Gomes , M. Schlickmann , A. Mateus , W. Schoenell

We investigate the metallicity properties of host galaxies of long Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) in the light of the Fundamental Metallicity Relation (FMR), the tight dependence of metallicity on mass and SFR recently discovered for SDSS galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Mannucci , R. Salvaterra , M. A. Campisi

Simulations indicate that the inflow of gas of star-forming galaxies is almost co-planar and co-rotating with the gas disk, and that the outflow of gas driven by stellar winds and/or supernova explosions is preferentially perpendicular to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 Enci Wang , Simon J. Lilly

We describe an equilibrium model that links the metallicity of low-redshift galaxies to stellar evolution models. It enables the testing of different stellar initial mass functions and metal yields against observed galaxy metallicities. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Martin Harwit , Drew Brisbin

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 investigate the relationships between stellar mass, gas-phase oxygen abundance (metallicity), star formation rate, and dust content of star-forming galaxies at z$\sim$1.6 using Subaru/FMOS spectroscopy in the COSMOS field. The…

We derive a metallicity dependent relation between the surface density of the star formation rate (Sigma_{SFR}) and the gas surface density (Sigma_{g}) in a feedback regulated model of star formation in galactic disks. In this model, star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sami Dib

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…

We study the connection between the observed star formation rate-stellar mass (SFR-$M_*$) relation and the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF) by means of a subhalo abundance matching technique coupled to merger trees extracted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 E. Contini , X. Kang , A. D. Romeo , Q. Xia , S. K. Yi

Metallicity and gas content are intimately related in the baryonic exchange cycle of galaxies, and galaxy evolution scenarios can be constrained by quantifying this relation. To this end, we have compiled a sample of ~400 galaxies in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Michele Ginolfi , Leslie K. Hunt , Crescenzo Tortora , Raffaella Schneider , Giovanni Cresci

The alpha element to iron peak element ratio, for example [Mg/Fe], is a commonly applied indicator of the galaxy star formation timescale (SFT) since the two groups of elements are mainly produced by different types of supernovae that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Zhiqiang Yan , Terea Jerabkova , Pavel Kroupa

The gas-phase metallicity of galaxies encodes important information about galaxy evolution processes, in particular star formation, feedback, outflows and gas accretion, the relative importance of which can be extracted from systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Nancy Yang , Dirk Scholte , Amelie Saintonge

The variations in metallicity and spatial patterns within star-forming regions of galaxies result from diverse physical processes unfolding throughout their evolutionary history, with a particular emphasis in recent events. Analysing MaNGA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 F. Jara-Ferreira , P. B. Tissera , E. Sillero , Y. Rosas-Guevara , S. E. Pedrosa , M. E. De Rossi , T. Theuns , L. Bignone

Massive early-type galaxies have higher metallicities and higher ratios of $\alpha$ elements to iron than their less massive counterparts. Reproducing these correlations has long been a problem for hierarchical galaxy formation theory, both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-15 Takashi Okamoto , Masahiro Nagashima , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlos S. Frenk

The physical origin of the scatter in the relation between galaxy stellar mass and the metallicity of the interstellar medium, i.e. the Mass-Metallicity Relation (MZR), reflects the relative importance of key processes in galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Maria L. van Loon , Peter D. Mitchell , Joop Schaye