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–metallicity and nitrogen abundance gradients in local galaxies

F Belfiore, R Maiolino, C Tremonti… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We study the gas phase metallicity (O/H) and nitrogen abundance gradients traced by star-
forming regions in a representative sample of 550 nearby galaxies in the stellar mass range …

New calibrations for abundance determinations in H ii regions

LS Pilyugin, EK Grebel - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Simple relations for deriving the oxygen abundance in H ii regions with intensities of the
three strong emission lines R 2, R 3, and N 2 (R calibration) or S 2, R 3, and N 2 (S …

Breathing FIRE: how stellar feedback drives radial migration, rapid size fluctuations, and population gradients in low-mass galaxies

K El-Badry, A Wetzel, M Geha, PF Hopkins… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We examine the effects of stellar feedback and bursty star formation on low-mass galaxies
(M star= 2× 10 6− 5× 10 10 M⊙) using the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE) …

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) – III. Physical properties and elemental abundances of Lyman-limit systems at z < 1

FS Zahedy, HW Chen, TM Cooper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic investigation of physical conditions and elemental abundances in
four optically thick Lyman-limit systems (LLSs) at z= 0.36–0.6 discovered within the Cosmic …

Deep Narrowband Photometry of the M101 Group: Strong-line Abundances of 720 H ii Regions

R Garner, JC Mihos, P Harding… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present deep, narrowband imaging of the nearby spiral galaxy M101 and its satellites to
analyze the oxygen abundances of their H ii regions. Using Case Western Reserve …

Gas inflow and metallicity drops in star-forming galaxies

D Ceverino, JS Almeida, CM Tuñón… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Gas inflow feeds galaxies with low-metallicity gas from the cosmic web, sustaining star
formation across the Hubble time. We make a connection between these inflows and …

Signals: I. Survey description

L Rousseau-Nepton, RP Martin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT SIGNALS, the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy
Survey, is a large observing programme designed to investigate massive star formation and …

Metallicity gradients in small and nearby spiral galaxies

F Bresolin - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Spectra of H ii regions obtained with Gemini/GMOS are used to derive the radial metallicity
gradients of four small, low-mass spiral galaxies. The analysis of the outer disc of one of …

Gas, dust, and the CO-to-molecular gas conversion factor in low-metallicity starbursts

LK Hunt, F Belfiore, F Lelli, BT Draine… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The factor relating CO emission to molecular hydrogen column density, X CO, is still subject
to uncertainty, in particular at low metallicity. In this paper, to quantify X CO at two different …