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A set of 76 open clusters with abundances based upon DDO photometry and/or moderate dispersion spectroscopy has been transformed to a common [Fe/H] scale and used to study the local structure and evolution of the galactic disk. The…

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We studied the stellar populations of 40 early-type galaxies using medium resolution long-slit spectroscopy along their major axes (and along the minor axis for two of them), from 10^7 Msol to 10^12 Msol (-9.2 > M_B > -22.4 mag). All the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mina Koleva , Philippe Prugniel , Sven De Rijcke , Werner W. Zeilinger

We use a suite of numerical simulations to investigate the mechanisms and effects of radial migration of stars in disk galaxies like the Milky Way (MW). An isolated, collisionless stellar disk with a MW-like scale-height shows only the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan C. Bird , Stelios Kazantzidis , David H. Weinberg

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 derive stellar population parameters and radial gradients within 0.65 $R_e$ for spatially resolved spectra of 2968 early-type galaxies from MaNGA, spanning stellar velocity dispersions ($\sigma$) of 50--340 km s$^{-1}$. Light-weighted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Tathagata Pal , Guy Worthey

We report the first sub-kiloparsec spatial resolution measurements of strongly inverted gas-phase metallicity gradients in two dwarf galaxies at $z$$\sim$2. The galaxies have stellar masses $\sim$$10^9M_\odot$, specific star-formation rate…

Based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan telescopes we present detailed elemental abundances for 20 red giant stars in the outer Galactic disk, located at Galactocentric distances between 9 and 13…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-28 T. Bensby , A. Alves-Brito , M. S. Oey , D. Yong , J. Meléndez

In order to understand the roles of metal flows in galaxy formation and evolution, we analyse our self-consistent cosmological chemo-dynamical simulation of a Milky Way like galaxy during its thin-disc phase. Our simulated galaxy disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Chiaki Kobayashi

Long-slit spectra have been obtained with the Keck telescope for a sample of 11 early-type galaxies covering a wide range in luminosity and hence mass. Rotation velocity and velocity dispersions, together with 19 Lick line-strength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Sanchez-Blazquez , D. A. Forbes , J. Strader , J. Brodie , R. Proctor

The radially averaged metallicity distribution of the ISM and the young stellar population of a sample of 20 disk galaxies is investigated by means of an analytical chemical evolution model which assumes constant ratios of galactic wind…

We present a novel method to retrieve the chemical structure of galaxies using integral field spectroscopy data through the stellar Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF). This is the probability distribution of observing stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Mejía-Narváez , S. F. Sánchez , E. A. D. Lacerda , L. Carigi , L. Galbany , B. Husemann , R. García-Benito

The role of metallicity in shaping protoplanetary disk evolution remains poorly comprehended. This study analyzes the disk fraction of 10 young (0.9-2.1 Myr) and low-metallicity (0.34-0.83 Z$_{\odot}$) clusters located in the outer Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-09 Sudeshna Patra , Jessy Jose , Neal J. Evans

The stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients from the fiducial late-type galaxy simulation of Stinson et al. (2010) are presented. Over 1-3 scalelengths, gradients are shown to flatten with time, consistent with empirical evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-15 K. Pilkington , B. K. Gibson

We have compiled two new Galactic open cluster catalogues. The first one has 119 objects with age, distance and metallicity data, while the second one has 144 objects with both absolute proper motion and radial velocity data, of which 45…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chen , J. L. Hou , J. J. Wang

We explore the effects of environment in the evolution of late-type galaxies by studying the radial profiles of light- and mass-weighted metallicities of galaxies in two discrete environments: field and groups. We use a sample of 167…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 V. Coenda , D. Mast , H. Muriel , H. J. Martínez

The $([\alpha/{\rm Fe}],[{\rm Fe/H}])$ distribution of Milky Way stars shows at least two distinct sequences, which have traditionally been associated with the thin and thick disc components. The abundance distribution varies systematically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 Sanjib Sharma , Michael R. Hayden , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

The abundances of iron and oxygen are homogeneously determined in a sample of 523 nearby (d<150 pc) FGK disk and halo stars with metallicities in the range -1.5<[Fe/H]<0.5. The oxygen abundances were inferred from a restricted non-LTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Ramirez , C. Allende Prieto , D. L. Lambert

We aim to quantify the chemical and kinematical properties of the Galactic disks with a sample of 119,558 giant stars having abundances and 3D velocities taken or derived from the APOGEE DR17 and Gaia EDR3 catalogs. The Gaussian Mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Guozhen Hu , Zhengyi Shao

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

The radius valley, a dip in the radius distribution of exoplanets at ~1.9 Earth radii separates compact rocky Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes with lower density. Various hypotheses have been put forward to explain the radius valley.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-06 Di-Chang Chen , Ji Wei Xie , Ji-Lin. Zhou , Jia-Yi Yang , Subo Dong , Zi Zhu , Zheng Zheng , Chao Liu , Weikai Zong , Ali Luo