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We present hitherto the largest sample of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients measured at sub-kiloparsec resolution in star-forming galaxies in the redshift range of $z\in[1.2, 2.3]$. These measurements are enabled by the synergy of…

In a series of three papers, we investigate the current status of published metallicities for open clusters that were derived from a variety of photometric and spectroscopic methods. The current article focuses on spectroscopic methods. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-10 U. Heiter , C. Soubiran , M. Netopil , E. Paunzen

The structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way bulge is a matter of debate. Important diagnostics for discriminating between bulge models include alpha-abundance trends with metallicity, and spatial abundance and metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-23 N. Ryde , M. Schultheis , V. Grieco , F. Matteucci , R. M. Rich , S. Uttenthaler

Aims. We present a continuation of our study about the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). In this work we extend the determination of metallicities up to redshift = 1.24 for a sample…

We investigate longitude-velocity ($\ell$-$v$) diagrams as a diagnostic tool to study the metallicity structure of the Milky Way (MW) disk. The present-day metallicity structure encodes the imprint of the Galaxy's formation, assembly, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Victor Liu , Dana S. Balser , Trey V. Wenger

Low resolution ESO VLT/FORS spectra of blue supergiant stars are analyzed to determine stellar metallicities (based on elements such as Fe, Ti, Mg) in the extended disk of the spiral galaxy NGC3621. Mildly subsolar metallicity (-0.30 dex)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , Miguel A. Urbaneja , Fabio Bresolin , Matthew. W. Hosek , Norbert Przybilla

We demonstrate the existence of a -local- relation between galaxy surface mass density, gas metallicity, and star-formation rate density using spatially-resolved optical spectroscopy of HII regions in the local Universe. One of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. F. Rosales-Ortega , S. F. Sánchez , J. Iglesias-Páramo , A. I. Díaz , J. M. Vílchez , J. Bland-Hawthorn , B. Husemann , D. Mast

We analyzed the relation between the corotation radii and the galactic radii at which breaks or changes of slope of the metallicity gradients occur in spiral galaxies. With this purpose we compiled the results from the literature on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sergio Scarano , Jacques R. D. Lépine

We have observed a sample of typical z=1 star forming galaxies, selected from the HiZELS survey, with the new KMOS near-infrared, multi-IFU instrument on the VLT, in order to obtain their dynamics and metallicity gradients. The majority of…

We present mid-infrared ISO-SWS observations of the fine-structure emissions lines [NeII]12.8, [NeIII]15.6, [NeIII]36, [ArII]6.9, [ArIII]8.9, [SIII]18.7, [SIII]33.5, [SIV]10.5, and the recombination lines Br_alpha and Br_beta, in a sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uriel Giveon , Amiel Sternberg , Dieter Lutz , Helmut Feuchtgruber , Adi Pauldrach

Disc galaxies exhibit radial metallicity gradients in both their stellar and gaseous components. The star-forming gas (SFG) in HII regions and young stars (YSs) trace the recent evolutionary history of the galaxy. We aim to assess the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Isha Shailesh , Patricia B. Tissera , Emanuel Sillero

(abridged) We present 8.2m VLT spectroscopic observations of 28 HII regions in 16 emission-line galaxies and 3.6m ESO telescope spectroscopic observations of 38 HII regions in 28 emission-line galaxies. These emission-line galaxies were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 N. G. Guseva , P. Papaderos , H. T. Meyer , Y. I. Izotov , K. J. Fricke

Radial metallicity trends provide a key indicator of physical processes such as star formation and radial gas migration within a galaxy. Large IFU surveys allow for detailed studies of these radial variations, with recent observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Bethan Easeman , Patricia Schady , Stijn Wuyts , Robert M. Yates

We present an analysis of the iron abundance in the hot gas surrounding galaxy groups and clusters. To do this, we first compile and homogenise a large dataset of 79 low-redshift (|z| = 0.03) systems (159 individual measurements) from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Robert M. Yates , Peter A. Thomas , Bruno M. B. Henriques

We address the problem of deriving, from the observed projected metallicity gradients, the intrinsic metallicity distribution of elliptical galaxies as a function of their integrals of motion. The method is illustrated by an application to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 L. Ciotti , M. Stiavelli , A. Braccesi

Open clusters are known as excellent tools for various topics in Galactic research. For example, they allow accurately tracing the chemical structure of the Galactic disc. However, the metallicity is known only for a rather low percentage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , U. Heiter , C. Soubiran

Observations of neutral hydrogen in spiral galaxies reveal a sharp cutoff in the radial density profile at some distance from the center. Using 22 galaxies with known HI distributions as an example, we discuss the question of whether this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 O. V. Abramova

We present integral field spectroscopy observations of two star-forming dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster (VCC135 and VCC324) obtained with PMAS/PPak at the Calar Alto 3.5 meter telescope. We derive metallicity maps using the N2 empirical…

The ISM metallicity and the stellar mass are examined in a sample of 66 galaxies at 0.4<z<1, selected from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey (GDDS) and the Canada-France Redshift Survey (CFRS). We observe a mass-metallicity relation similar to…

We determined the chemical and kinematic properties of the Galactic thin and thick disk using a sample of 307,246 A/F/G/K-type giant stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and Gaia DR2 survey. Our study found that the thick disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Yepeng Yan , Cuihua Du , Shuai Liu , Hefan Li , Jianrong Shi , Yuqin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhenyu Wu