scholarly journals The evolution of the oxygen abundance radial gradient in the Milky Way Galaxy disk

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S323) ◽  
pp. 245-253
Author(s):  
Mercedes Mollá ◽  
Oscar Cavichia ◽  
Roberto D. D. Costa ◽  
Walter J. Maciel ◽  
Brad Gibson ◽  
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AbstractWe review the state of our chemical evolution models for spiral and low mass galaxies. We analyze the consequences of using different stellar yields, infall rate laws and star formation prescriptions in the time/redshift evolution of the radial distributions of abundances, and other quantities as star formation rate or gas densities, in the Milky Way Galaxy; In particular we will study the evolution of the oxygen abundance radial gradient analyzing its relation with the ratio SFR/infall. We also compare the results with our old chemical evolution models, cosmological simulations and with the existing data, mainly with the planetary nebulae abundances.

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S245) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Chiaki Kobayashi

AbstractWe simulate the formation and evolution of galaxies with a hydrodynamical model including supernova and hypernova feedback. The large contribution of hypernovae is required from the observed abundance ratios in the Milky Way Galaxy. The hypernova feedback suppress star formation efficiently, which results in the cosmic star formation rate history peaked at z ~ 4. It also drives galactic outflows efficiently in low mass galaxies, and these winds eject heavy elements into the intergalactic medium. The ejected baryon and metal fraction is larger for less massive galaxies, which results in the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies. We also simulate the chemodynamical evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy, and show the difference of the stellar populations in the bulge and disk.


2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S235) ◽  
pp. 313-313
Author(s):  
J. Yin ◽  
J.L. Hou ◽  
R.X. Chang ◽  
S. Boissier ◽  
N. Prantzos

Andromeda galaxy (M31,NGC224) is the biggest spiral in the Local Group. By studying the star formation history(SFH) and chemical evolution of M31, and comparing with the Milky Way Galaxy, we are able to understand more about the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies.


1998 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 21-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sellgren ◽  
J. S. Carr ◽  
S. C. Balachandran

The disk of the Milky Way galaxy shows evidence for gas-phase abundances which increase with decreasing radius (Simpson et al. 1995; Afflerbach et al. 1997). Sustained star formation in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy may be fueled by inflow of inner disk gas (Serabyn & Morris 1996), suggesting that Galactic Center (GC) stars may be metal-rich. Measurements of stellar abundances in the GC allow us to explore the chemical evolution of our Galaxy's nucleus and to infer its star formation history.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (S317) ◽  
pp. 356-357
Author(s):  
Daisuke Toyouchi ◽  
Masashi Chiba

AbstractGas inflow and outflow are the most important processes, which determine the structural and chemical evolution of a disk galaxy like the Milky Way. In order to get new insights into these baryonic processes in Milky Way like galaxies (MWLGs), we consider the data of distant star-forming galaxies and investigate the evolution of the radial density profile of their stellar components and the associated total amount of gaseous inflow and outflow. For this purpose, we analyze the redshift evolution of their stellar mass distribution, combined with the scaling relations between the mass of baryonic components, star formation rate and chemical abundance for both high- and low-z star-forming galaxies. As a result, we find the new relations between star formation rate and inflow/outflow rate as deduced from these distant galaxies, which will provide fundamental information for understanding the structural and chemical evolution of MWLGs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (A30) ◽  
pp. 265-265
Author(s):  
M. Mollá ◽  
O. Cavichia ◽  
B. Gibson ◽  
P. Tissera ◽  
P. Sánchez-Blázquez ◽  
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AbstractWe analyse the evolution with redshift of the radial gradient of oxygen abundances in spiral disks resulting from our MULCHEM chemical evolution models, computed for galaxies of different sizes or masses, studying the relationships between the gradients and galaxy characteristics as the stellar mass, the size, the gas fraction or the star formation rate for z < 4.


2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S255) ◽  
pp. 330-335
Author(s):  
Yutaka Komiya ◽  
Takuma Suda ◽  
Asao Habe ◽  
Masayuki Fujimoto

AbstractExtremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are thought to be formed in the low-mass protogalaxies as building blocks of the Milky Way and can be probes to investigate the early stage of galaxy formation and star formation in the early universe. We study the formation history of EMP stars in the Milky Way halo using a new model of chemical evolution based on the hierarchical theory of the galaxy formation. We construct the merging history of the Milky Way halo based on the extended Press-Schechter formalism, and follow the star formation and chemical evolution along the merger tree. The abundance trends and number of low-mass stars predicted in our model are compared with those of observed EMP stars. Additionally, in order to clarify the origin of hyper metal poor stars, we investigate the change of the surface metal abundances of stars by accretion of interstellar matter. We also investigate the pre-enrichment of intergalactic matter by the first supernovae.


2020 ◽  
Vol 634 ◽  
pp. A26 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. Pilyugin ◽  
E. K. Grebel ◽  
I. A. Zinchenko ◽  
J. M. Vílchez ◽  
F. Sakhibov ◽  
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We derive the photometric, kinematic, and abundance characteristics of 18 star-forming MaNGA galaxies with fairly regular velocity fields and surface brightness distributions and with a large offset between the measured position angles of the major kinematic and photometric axes, ΔPA ≳ 20°. The aim is to examine if there is any other distinctive characteristic common to these galaxies. We found morphological signs of interaction in some (in 11 out of 18) but not in all galaxies. The observed velocity fields show a large variety; the maps of the isovelocities vary from an hourglass-like appearance to a set of straight lines. The position angles of the major kinematic axes of the stellar and gas rotations are close to each other. The values of the central oxygen abundance, radial abundance gradient, and star formation rate are distributed within the intervals defined by galaxies with small (no) ΔPA of similar mass. Thus, we do not find any specific characteristic common to all galaxies with large ΔPA. Instead, the properties of these galaxies are similar to those of galaxies with small (no) ΔPA. This suggests that either the reason responsible for the large ΔPA does not influence other characteristics or the galaxies with large ΔPA do not share a common origin, they can, instead, originate through different channels.


2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S270) ◽  
pp. 503-506
Author(s):  
Pedro Colín ◽  
Vladimir Avila-Reese ◽  
Octavio Valenzuela

AbstractCosmological Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulations are used to study the specific star formation rate (sSFR=SSF/Ms) history and the stellar mass fraction, fs=Ms/MT, of small galaxies, total masses MT between few × 1010 M⊙ to few ×1011 M⊙. Our results are compared with recent observational inferences that show the so-called “downsizing in sSFR” phenomenon: the less massive the galaxy, the higher on average is its sSFR, a trend seen at least since z ~ 1. The simulations are not able to reproduce this phenomenon, in particular the high inferred values of sSFR, as well as the low values of fs constrained from observations. The effects of resolution and sub-grid physics on the SFR and fs of galaxies are discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 488 (2) ◽  
pp. 2202-2221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Jaacks ◽  
Steven L Finkelstein ◽  
Volker Bromm

ABSTRACT We utilize gizmo, coupled with newly developed sub-grid models for Population III (Pop III) and Population II (Pop II), to study the legacy of star formation in the pre-reionization Universe. We find that the Pop II star formation rate density (SFRD), produced in our simulation (${\sim } 10^{-2}\ \mathrm{M}_\odot \, {\rm yr^{-1}\, Mpc^{-3}}$ at z ≃ 10), matches the total SFRD inferred from observations within a factor of &lt;2 at 7 ≲ z ≲ 10. The Pop III SFRD, however, reaches a plateau at ${\sim }10^{-3}\ \mathrm{M}_\odot \, {\rm yr^{-1}\, Mpc^{-3}}$ by z ≈ 10, remaining largely unaffected by the presence of Pop II feedback. At z  = 7.5, ${\sim } 20{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of Pop III star formation occurs in isolated haloes that have never experienced any Pop II star formation (i.e. primordial haloes). We predict that Pop III-only galaxies exist at magnitudes MUV ≳ −11, beyond the limits for direct detection with the James Webb Space Telescope. We assess that our stellar mass function (SMF) and UV luminosity function (UVLF) agree well with the observed low mass/faint-end behaviour at z = 8 and 10. However, beyond the current limiting magnitudes, we find that both our SMF and UVLF demonstrate a deviation/turnover from the expected power-law slope (MUV,turn = −13.4 ± 1.1 at z  = 10). This could impact observational estimates of the true SFRD by a factor of 2(10) when integrating to MUV = −12 (−8) at z ∼ 10, depending on integration limits. Our turnover correlates well with the transition from dark matter haloes dominated by molecular cooling to those dominated by atomic cooling, for a mass Mhalo ≈ 108 M⊙ at z ≃ 10.


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