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Stellar population models with abundance distributions determined from the analytic Simple model of chemical evolution fail to match observations of the nuclei of bulge-dominated galaxies in three respects. First, the spectral energy…

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HST trigonometric distances, photometric metallicities, isochronic ages from the second revised version of the Geneva--Copenhagen survey, and uniform spectroscopic Fe and Mg abundances from our master catalog are used to construct and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 V. A. Marsakov , V. V. Koval' , T. V. Borkova , M. V. Shapovalov

We obtain two-infall galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models simulating the chemical evolution of the Milky Way as constrained by a golden sample of $394,000$ stellar abundances of the Milky Way Mapper survey from the 19th data release of…

We investigate the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disc exploring various schemes of recent (last several Gyr) star formation episodes, as reported in recent observational works. We use a semi-analytical model with parametrized radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-12 Tianxiang Chen , Nikos Prantzos

We adopt a new chemical evolution model for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and thereby investigate its past star formation and chemical enrichment histories. The delay time distribution of type Ia supernovae recently revealed by type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

We explore the stellar metallicity distribution function of the Galactic halo based on SDSS ugriz photometry. A set of stellar isochrones is calibrated using observations of several star clusters and validated by comparisons with…

By means of chemo-photometric models for galaxies of different morhological types, we have carried out a detailed study of the history of element production by spheroidal and dwarf irregular galaxies. Spheroidal galaxies suffer a strong and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Calura , Francesca Matteucci

We aim at finding a cosmologically motivated infall law to understand if the LambdaCDM cosmology can reproduce the main chemical characteristics of a Milky Way-like spiral galaxy. In this work we test several different gas infall laws,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edoardo Colavitti , Francesca Matteucci , Giuseppe Murante

We show that the bulge and the disk of the Milky Way (MW) at R$\lesssim$7~kpc are well described by a unique chemical evolution and a two-phase star-formation history (SFH). We argue that the populations within this inner disk, not the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Misha Haywood , Paola Di Matteo , Matthew Lehnert , Owain Snaith , Francesca Fragkoudi , Sergey Khoperskov

[Abridge] In the first paper of this series (paper I) we presented a new approach for studying the chemo-odynamical evolution in disk galaxies, focusing on the Milky Way. Here we extend these results to different distances from the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-03 Ivan Minchev , Cristina Chiappini , Marie Martig

We use deep narrowband Ca H&K ($F395N$) imaging taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to construct the metallicity distribution function (MDF) of Local Group (LG) ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy Eridanus II (Eri II). When combined with…

A simple model for the evolution of disc galaxies is presented. We adopt three numbers from observations of the Milky Way disc, the local surface mass density, the stellar scale length (of the assumedly exponential disc) and the amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We adopt a scenario in which the Galactic thick disk was formed by minor merging between the first generation of the Galactic thin disk (FGTD) and a dwarf galaxy about 9 Gyr ago and thereby investigate chemical and dynamical properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

We study the origin and cosmic evolution of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) in star-forming galaxies based on a full, numerical chemical evolution model. The model was designed to match the local MZRs for both gas and stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Jianhui Lian , Daniel Thomas , Claudia Maraston

Context: The formation and evolution of disk galaxies are long standing questions in Astronomy. Understanding the properties of globular cluster systems can lead to important insights on the evolution of its host galaxy. Aims: We aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Enio Cezario , Paula R. T. Coelho , Alan Alves-Brito , Duncan A. Forbes , Jean P. Brodie

Deciphering the distribution of metals throughout galaxies is fundamental in our understanding of galaxy evolution. Nearby, low-metallicity, star-forming dwarf galaxies in particular can offer detailed insight into the metal-dependent…

We present a new chemical evolution model for the Galaxy that assumes three main infall episodes of primordial gas for the formation of halo, thick and thin disk, respectively. We compare our results with selected data taking into account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Micali , F. Matteucci , D. Romano

The evolution of radial gradients of metallicity in disk galaxies and its relation with the disk formation are not well understood. Theoretical models of galactic chemical evolution make contrasting predictions about the time evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Magrini , Edvige Corbelli , Daniele Galli

In this study, we modify the semi-analytic model Galacticus in order to accurately reproduce the observed properties of dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way. We find that reproducing observational determinations of the halo occupation fraction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-20 Niusha Ahvazi , Andrew Benson , Laura V. Sales , Ethan O. Nadler , Sachi Weerasooriya , Xiaolong Du , Mia Sauda Bovill

We examine the metallicity distribution of the Galactic thick disk using F, G, and K dwarf stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 8. Using the large sample of dwarf stars with proper motions and spectroscopically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-29 Kenneth Carrell , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao