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We develop a simple analytical model that tracks galactic metallicities governed by star formation and feedback to gain insight from the observed galaxy stellar mass-metallicity relations over a large range of stellar masses and redshifts.…

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Based on a carefully constructed sample of dwarf stars, a new optical-near infrared photometric calibration to estimate the metallicity of late-type K and early-to-mid-type M dwarfs is presented. The calibration sample has two parts; the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Neda Hejazi , Michael M. De Robertis , Peter C. Dawson

Observations of galaxies in the local Universe have shown that both the ionized gas and the stars of satellites are more metal-rich than of equally massive centrals. To gain insight into the connection between this metallicity enhancement…

We present global metallicity properties, metallicity distribution functions (MDFs) and radial metallicity profiles for the six most luminous M31 dwarf galaxy satellites: M32, NGC 205, NGC 185, NGC 147, Andromeda VII, and Andromeda II. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Ho , M. Geha , E. Tollerud , R. Zinn , P. Guhathakurta , L. Vargas

We show that the mass-metallicity relation observed in the local universe is due to a more general relation between stellar mass M*, gas-phase metallicity and SFR. Local galaxies define a tight surface in this 3D space, the Fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Mannucci , G. Cresci , R. Maiolino , A. Marconi , A. Gnerucci

We report medium-resolution (1-2 A) spectroscopy and broadband (UBV) photometry for a sample of 39 bright stars (the majority of which are likely to be giants) selected as metal-deficient candidates from an objective-prism survey…

A model is proposed for the formation of gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxies and gas-poor, rotating dwarf elliptical galaxies following the interaction between two giant galaxies as a function of space density. The formation of dwarf galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Suma Debsarma , Pradip Karmakar , Emmanuel Davoust

Over a quarter of white dwarfs have photospheric metal pollution, which is evidence for recent accretion of exoplanetary material. While a wide range of mechanisms have been proposed to account for this pollution, there are currently few…

Globular cluster (GC) systems around galaxies of a vast mass range show remarkably simple scaling relations. The combined mass of all GCs is a constant fraction of the total galaxy mass and the mean metallicity and metallicity dispersion of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-24 Nick Choksi , Oleg Gnedin , Hui Li

The bulk-metallicity determination of giant exoplanets is essential to constrain their formation and evolution pathways and to compare them to the solar system. Previous studies inferred an inverse relation between the mass and bulk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Simon Müller , Ravit Helled

Observations consistently show that elliptical galaxies follow a tight "fundamental plane" scaling relation between size, mean surface brightness and velocity dispersion, with the form $R \propto \sigma^{a}\mu^{b}$. This relation not only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Dan S. Taranu , John Dubinski , H. K. C. Yee

Deep CCD photometry and positions for a new sample of $\simeq 250$ dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies in the Coma cluster core are analyzed. A significant color gradient is detected in their projected radial distribution, given by $\Delta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeff Secker

We have identified a sample of 41 low-mass high--oxygen abundance outliers from the mass--metallicity relation of star-forming galaxies measured by Tremonti et al (2004). These galaxies, which have 8.6 < [12 + log(O/H)] < 9.3 over a range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Molly S. Peeples , Richard W. Pogge , K. Z. Stanek

Recent results have suggested that the well known mass-metallicity relation has a strong dependence on the star formation rate, to the extent that a three dimensional `fundamental metallicity relation' exists which links the three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. S. Bothwell , R. Maiolino , R. Kennicutt. , G. Cresci , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , C. Cicone

We present the structural parameters of $\sim910$ dwarf elliptical-like galaxies in the local universe ($z\lesssim0.01$) derived from the $r-$band images of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We examine the dependence of structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-07 Mira Seo , Hong Bae Ann

We extend the stellar-mass gas-phase metallicity relation (MZR) at $z = 1.1-3.4$ down to the extremely low-mass regime using 183 galaxies with $\log(M_*/M_\odot) = 6.3-10.2$, based on deep JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy from the NGDEEP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Xianlong He , Zihao Li , Xin Wang , Zheng Cai , Tucker Jones , Tommaso Treu , Benedetta Vulcani , Matthew A. Malkan , Karl Glazebrook

The outer halo regions of early-type galaxies carry key information about their past accretion history. However, spectroscopically probing the stellar component at such galactocentric radii is still challenging. Using Keck/DEIMOS, we have…

We present the first results of a study where we determine the metallicity distribution function in the Galactic disks as a function of height above the Galactic plane. Observations in the Stromgren photometric system enables us to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-11 Anna S. Arnadottir , Sofia Feltzing , Ingemar Lundstrom

We analyze the dark matter (DM) halos of a sample of dwarf Ellitpicals (dE) and discuss cosmological and evolutionary implications. Using orbit modeling we recover their density slopes and, for the first time, the halo flattening. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Mathias Lipka , Jens Thomas , Roberto Saglia , Ralf Bender , Maximilian Fabricius , Christian Partmann