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Recent observations by JWST have revealed supersolar $^{14}$N abundances in galaxies at very high redshift. On the other hand, these galaxies show subsolar metallicity. The observed N/O ratios are difficult to reproduce in the framework of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 F. Rizzuti , F. Matteucci , P. Molaro , G. Cescutti , R. Maiolino

We have investigated how the incidence of star-forming galaxies varies with the environment using a volume-limited sample of nearby galaxy spectra extracted from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The environment is characterized by the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laerte Sodre , Abilio Mateus

This paper reports simulations allowing for stochastic accretion and mass loss within closed and open systems modeled using a previously developed multi-population, multi-zone (halo, thick disk, thin disk) treatment. The star formation rate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Valle , S. N. Shore , D. Galli

Metals -- heavy elements synthesized during various phases of stellar evolution or during supernova explosions -- play a fundamental role in shaping galaxy evolution. In fact, their relative abundances, spatial distribution, and scaling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Mirko Curti

The star formation histories (SFHs) of dwarf galaxies are thought to be \emph{bursty}, with large -- order of magnitude -- changes in the star formation rate on timescales similar to O-star lifetimes. As a result, the standard…

We predict how the C, N, and O abundances within the interstellar medium of galaxies evolve as functions of the galaxy star formation history (SFH). We adopt a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation, focusing on three star-forming disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-07 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Chiaki Kobayashi

Observations of elemental abundances in the Galaxy have repeatedly shown an intrinsic scatter as a function of time and metallicity. The standard approach to chemical evolution does not attempt to address this scatter in abundances since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Craig J. Copi

The abundance gradients and the radial gas profile of the Galactic disc are analysed by means of a model for the chemical evolution of galaxies. As one of the major uncertainties in models for galaxy evolution is the star formation (SF)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Portinari , C. Chiosi

The abundance of nitrogen in the interstellar medium is a powerful probe of star for- mation processes over cosmological timescales. Since nitrogen can be produced both in massive and intermediate-mass stars with metallicity-dependent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Elisabeth Vangioni , Irina Dvorkin , Keith A. Olive , Yohan Dubois , Paolo Molaro , Patrick Petitjean , Joe Silk , Taysun Kimm

The abundance ratio N/O is a useful tool to study the interplay of galactic processes, e.g. star formation efficiency, time-scale of infall and outflow loading factor We aim to trace log(N/O) versus [Fe/H] in the Milky Way and to compare it…

Utilizing the observational data of 55,318 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from the catalog of MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for the SDSS DR8, we investigate the galaxy downsizing effect of their O and N enrichments, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-12 Yu-Zhong Wu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

We investigate the chemical evolution of N/O using a sample of 45 local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) from the CLASSY survey. This sample spans a wide range of galaxy properties, with robust determinations of nitrogen and oxygen abundances…

Inhomogeneous chemical evolution models of galaxies which try to reproduce the scatter seen in element-to-iron ratios of metal-poor halo stars are heavily dependent on theoretical nucleosynthesis yields of core-collapse supernovae. Hence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Argast , M. Samland , F. -K. Thielemann , O. E. Gerhard

We show that the excess of nitrogen emission observed in a large sample of Starburst Nucleus Galaxies (SBNGs) can only be explained at a given metallicity by an overabundance of nitrogen with respect to normal HII regions in the disks of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Coziol , R. E. Carlos Reyes , S. Considere , E. Davoust , T. Contini

The problem of the origin of nitrogen is considered within the framework of an empirical approach. The oxygen abundances and nitrogen to oxygen abundances ratios are derived in HII regions of a number of spiral galaxies through the recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. S. Pilyugin , T. X. Thuan , J. M. Vilchez

We investigate whether the mean star formation activity of star-forming galaxies from z=0 to z=0.7 in the GOODS-S field can be reproduced by simple evolution models of these systems. In this case, such models might be used as first order…

The massive First Stars (the first ones to contribute to the chemical enrichment of the Universe due to their short lifetimes) are long dead, and even though efforts to directly observe them in high redshift galaxies are underway, a step…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-10 Gabriele Cescutti , Cristina Chiappini

Recent work suggests that galaxy evolution, and the build-up of stellar mass (M*) over cosmic time, is characterized by changes with redshift of star formation rate (SFR) and oxygen abundance (O/H). In a companion paper, we have compiled a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Leslie Hunt , Pratika Dayal , Laura Magrini , Andrea Ferrara

We present a model to self-consistently describe the joint evolution of starburst galaxies and the galactic wind resulting from this evolution. We combine the population synthesis code Starburst99 with a semi-analytical model of galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Benoit Côté , Hugo Martel , Laurent Drissen , Carmelle Robert

Observations show that galaxies follow a mass-metallicity relation over a wide range of masses. One currently favoured explanation is that less massive galaxies are less able to retain the gas and stellar ejecta and thus may lose the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Koeppen , C. Weidner , P. Kroupa