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We present precise abundance determinations of two near-pristine damped Ly$\alpha$ systems (DLAs) to assess the nature of the [O/Fe] ratio at [Fe/H] < -3 (i.e. <1/1000 of the solar metallicity). Prior observations indicate that the [O/Fe]…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Louise Welsh , Ryan Cooke , Michele Fumagalli , Max Pettini

In recent years, observations with the JWST have started to map out the rapid metal enrichment of the early Universe, while (sub)millimeter observations have simultaneously begun to reveal the ubiquity of dust beyond $z\gtrsim6$. However,…

We investigate the redshift (z) evolution of dust properties, its dependences on initial conditions of galaxy formation, and physical correlations between dust, gas, and stellar contents at different z based on our original chemodynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenji Bekki

We present a systematic investigation of the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) and fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) using uniform metallicity diagnostics across redshifts $z\sim0$ to $z\sim3.3$. We present new…

We present the first results from MMT and Keck spectroscopy for a large sample of $0.1\leq z\leq1$ emission-line galaxies selected from our narrow-band imaging in the Subaru Deep Field. We measured the weak [OIII]$\lambda$4363 emission line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-22 Chun Ly , Matthew A. Malkan , Jane Rigby , Tohru Nagao

We summarize some recent results on the metallicity and dust properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at high redshift (1<z<6.4). By using the spectra of more than 5000 QSOs from the SDSS we find no evidence for any metallicity evolution…

We present 14 N^0 measurements from our HIRES/Keck database of damped Lya abundances. These data are combined with measurements from the recent and past literature to build an homogeneous, uniform set of observations. We examine…

Damped Ly_alpha galaxies provide a sample of young galaxies where chemical abundances can be derived throughout the whole universe with an accuracy comparable to that for the local universe. Despite a large spread in redshift, HI column…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Molaro

Recently Lian et al. (2023), thanks to Gaia-ESO data, studied the chemical evolution of neutron-capture elements in the regime [Fe/H]>-1. We aim here to complement this study down to [Fe/H]=-3, and focus on Ba, Y, Sr, and abundance ratios…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-10 G. Guiglion , M. Bergemann , N. Storm , J. Lian , G. Cescutti , A. Serenelli

We present an analysis of the chemical abundance properties of $\approx$650 star-forming galaxies at $z \approx0.6-1.8$. Using integral-field observations from the $K$-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS), we quantify the [NII]/H$\alpha$…

We study star formation history and stellar metallicity distribution in galaxies in a Lambda cold dark matter universe using a hydrodynamic cosmological simulation. Our model predicts star formation rate declining in time exponentially from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kentaro Nagamine , Masataka Fukugita , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present a study of the mass-metallicity (M-Z) relation and H II region physical conditions in a sample of 20 star-forming galaxies at 1.0<z<1.5 drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. Our analysis indicates that the zero point of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Liu , Alice E. Shapley , Alison L. Coil , Jarle Brinchmann , Chung-Pei Ma

We investigate the evolution of dust content in galaxies from redshifts z=0 to z=9.5. Using empirically motivated prescriptions, we model galactic-scale properties -- including halo mass, stellar mass, star formation rate, gas mass, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Nia Imara , Abraham Loeb , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Peter Behroozi

Scaling laws of dust, HI gas and metal mass with stellar mass, specific star formation rate and metallicity are crucial to our understanding of the buildup of galaxies through their enrichment with metals and dust. In this work, we analyse…

We present the results from a damped Lya survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 3 based on over 500 new damped Lya systems at z>2.2. We measure the HI column density distribution f(N) and its zeroth and first moments (the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jason X. Prochaska , Stephane Herbert-Fort , Arthur M. Wolfe

We have compiled all available data on chemical abundances in damped Lyman alpha absorption systems for comparison with results from our combined chemical and spectrophotometric galaxy evolution models. Preliminary results from chemically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Lindner , Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben , Klaus J. Fricke

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

Deep surveys in many wavebands have shown that the rate at which stars were forming was at least a factor of 10 higher at z > 1 than today. Heavy elements (metals) are produced by stars, and the star formation history deduced by these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Dunne , S. A. Eales , M. G. Edmunds

We have examined some basic properties of damped Ly$\alpha$ systems(DLAs) by semi-analytic model. We assume that DLA hosts are disk galaxies whose mass function is generated by Press-Schechter formulism at redshift 3. Star formation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. L. Hou , C. G. Shu , S. Y. Shen , R. X. Chang

We study the metallicity properties of galaxies in the zCOSMOS sample between 0.2<z<0.8. At z<0.46, where Ha and [NII] are detected, we find the same dependence of metallicity on stellar mass and Star Formation Rate (SFR), the Fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Giovanni Cresci , Filippo Mannucci , Veronica Sommariva , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Marcella Brusa