Map** metallicity variations across nearby galaxy disks

K Kreckel, IT Ho, GA Blanc, B Groves… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The distribution of metals within a galaxy traces the baryon cycle and the buildup of galactic
disks, but the detailed gas phase metallicity distribution remains poorly sampled. We have …

Optical spectroscopy and nebular oxygen abundances of the Spitzer/SINGS galaxies

J Moustakas, RC Kennicutt, CA Tremonti… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present intermediate-resolution optical spectrophotometry of 65 galaxies obtained in
support of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS). For each galaxy we obtain …

Regulation of star formation rates in multiphase galactic disks: a thermal/dynamical equilibrium model

EC Ostriker, CF McKee, AK Leroy - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a model for the regulation of galactic star formation rates Σ SFR in disk galaxies,
in which interstellar medium (ISM) heating by stellar UV plays a key role. By requiring that …

The composition gradient in M101 revisited. II. Electron temperatures and implications for the nebular abundance scale

RC Kennicutt Jr, F Bresolin… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We use high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of 20 H II regions in the giant spiral galaxy M101 to
derive electron temperatures for the H II regions and robust metal abundances over radii R …

Optical star formation rate indicators

J Moustakas, RC Kennicutt Jr… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Using integrated optical spectrophotometry for 412 star-forming galaxies at z~ 0, and fiber-
aperture spectrophotometry for 120,846 SDSS galaxies at z~ 0.1, we investigate the Hα …

Evolution of the Milky Way with radial motions of stars and gas-I. The solar neighbourhood and the thin and thick disks

M Kubryk, N Prantzos, E Athanassoula - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. We study the role of radial migration of stars on the chemical evolution of the Milky
Way disk. Aims. We are interested in the impact of that process on the local properties of the …

The shape of oxygen abundance profiles explored with MUSE: evidence for widespread deviations from single gradients

L Sánchez-Menguiano, SF Sánchez, I Pérez… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We characterised the oxygen abundance radial distribution of a sample of 102 spiral
galaxies observed with VLT/MUSE using the O3N2 calibrator. The high spatial resolution of …

Variations of the mid-IR aromatic features inside and among galaxies

F Galliano, SC Madden, AGGM Tielens… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a systematic study of mid-IR spectra of Galactic regions,
Magellanic H ii regions, and galaxies of various types (dwarf, spiral, starburst), observed by …

Galaxy mergers and the mass–metallicity relation: evidence for nuclear metal dilution and flattened gradients from numerical simulations

DSN Rupke, LJ Kewley, JE Barnes - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent results comparing interacting galaxies to the mass–metallicity relation show that their
nuclear oxygen abundances are unexpectedly low. We present analysis of N …

The MUSE Atlas of Disks (MAD): resolving star formation rates and gas metallicities on< 100 pc scales

S Erroz-Ferrer, CM Carollo, M den Brok… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the physical properties of the ionized gas in local discs using the sample of 38
nearby∼ 108.5–11.2 M⊙ Star-Forming Main-Sequence (SFMS) galaxies observed so far as …