De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

SDSS-IV MaNGA: the impact of diffuse ionized gas on emission-line ratios, interpretation of diagnostic diagrams and gas metallicity measurements

K Zhang, R Yan, K Bundy, M Bershady… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Diffuse ionized gas (DIG) is prevalent in star-forming galaxies. Using a sample of 365 nearly
face-on star-forming galaxies observed by Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO, we …

Nebular spectroscopy: a guide on H ii regions and planetary nebulae

M Peimbert, A Peimbert… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a tutorial on the determination of the physical conditions and chemical
abundances in gaseous nebulae. We also include a brief review of recent results on 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 …

SDSS IV MaNGA: Metallicity and ionisation parameter in local star-forming galaxies from Bayesian fitting to photoionisation models

M Mingozzi, F Belfiore, G Cresci, K Bundy… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We measured gas-phase metallicity, ionisation parameter, and dust extinction for a
representative sample of 1795 local star-forming galaxies using integral field spectroscopy …

The physics of gas phase metallicity gradients in galaxies

P Sharda, MR Krumholz, E Wisnioski… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a new model for the evolution of gas phase metallicity gradients in galaxies from
first principles. We show that metallicity gradients depend on four ratios that collectively …

The MAGIC project–III. Radial and azimuthal Galactic abundance gradients using classical Cepheids

V Kovtyukh, B Lemasle, G Bono… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Radial abundance gradients provide sound constraints for chemo-dynamical models of
galaxies. Azimuthal variations of abundance ratios are solid diagnostics to understand their …

Spatially Resolved Spectroscopic Properties of Low-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies

SF Sánchez - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
I review the spatially resolved spectroscopic properties of low-redshift star-forming galaxies
(and their retired counterparts) using results from the most recent optical integral field …

3D gas-phase elemental abundances across the formation histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations: initial conditions for chemical tagging

MA Bellardini, A Wetzel, SR Loebman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We use FIRE-2 simulations to examine 3D variations of gas-phase elemental abundances of
[O/H],[Fe/H], and [N/H] in 11 MW and M31-mass galaxies across their formation histories at …

Metallicity calibrations for diffuse ionized gas and low-ionization emission regions

N Kumari, R Maiolino, F Belfiore… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Using integral field spectroscopic data of 24 nearby spiral galaxies obtained with the Multi
Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, we derive empirical calibrations to determine the metallicity of …