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most citedMetallicity Gradients in Disks: Do Galaxies Form Inside-Out?

219 citations · 908 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Resolved Dust-Gas-Metallicity relations in nearby spiral galaxies

Vidhi Tailor, Viviana Casasola, Francesco Calura +17

Context: Understanding the interstellar medium (ISM) requires high-resolution, multi-component mapping to capture its complex physical structure. Nearby spiral galaxies, with their…

astro-ph.GA2026

No evolution in the number density of little red dots from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon

Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +24

We present our search for little red dots (LRDs) in the "J1030 field", a region of the sky around the quasar SDSS J1030+0524, observed by the JWST EIGER program. Over 1…

astro-ph.GA2026

DustPedia and Local Volume Legacy samples as benchmarks for dust evolution in galaxies

Evangelos D. Paspaliaris, Simone Bianchi, Edvige Corbelli +8

DustPedia and LVL are two samples representative of the local galaxy population, including in total 1011 unique objects of all morphological types, with a wide range of stellar mas…

astro-ph.GA2025

Need for PRIMA to understand the nature and ISM physical conditions of HST-dark galaxies

Carlotta Gruppioni, Lee Armus, Matthieu Bethermin +10

One of the main open issues in galaxy formation and evolution is the early assembly of the most massive galaxies and their contribution to the stellar mass and star formation rate…

astro-ph.IM2025

The PRIMA promise of deciphering interstellar dust evolution with observations of the nearby Universe

Frédéric Galliano, Maarten Baes, Léo Belloir +25

This paper develops a few science cases, using the PRIMA far-IR probe, aimed at achieving several breakthroughs in our understanding of the dust properties and their evolution. We…

astro-ph.GA2025

Recovering the Dust Mass Budget with PRIMA

A. Traina, F. Pozzi, F. Calura +8

Achieving a complete picture of galaxy evolution is a primary goal of extragalactic astrophysics. To accomplish this ambitious task, a wealth of multi-wavelength surveys have been…

astro-ph.GA2025

The role of young and evolved stars in the heating of dust in local galaxies

Vidhi Tailor, Viviana Casasola, Francesca Pozzi +9

Context. Dust is a fundamental component of the interstellar medium (ISM) and plays a critical role in galaxy evolution. Dust grains influence the ISM by cooling the gas, altering…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

A big red dot at cosmic noon

Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +22

We report the discovery of a little red dot (LRD), dubbed BiRD ('big red dot'), at in the field around the quasar SDSSJ1030+0524. Using NIRCam images, we identifie…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

Simulating the infrared sky with a Spritz

L. Bisigello, C. Gruppioni, A. Feltre +6

Current hydrodynamical and semi-empirical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution have difficulties in reproducing the number densities of IR-detected galaxies. Therefore, a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 90 cited

Enhanced cluster lensing models with measured galaxy kinematics

P. Bergamini, P. Rosati, A. Mercurio +10

We present an improved determination of the total mass distribution of three CLASH/HFF massive clusters, MACS J1206.2-0847 (z=0.44), MACS J0416.1-2403 (z=0.40), Abell S1063 (z=0.35…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 91 cited

Magnifying the early episodes of star formation: super star clusters at cosmological distances

E. Vanzella, M. Castellano, M. Meneghetti +27

We study the spectrophotometric properties of a highly magnified (μ~40-70) pair of stellar systems identified at z=3.2222 behind the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MACS~J0416…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 1 cited

Feedback from massive stars and gas expulsion from proto-Globular Clusters

F. Calura, C. G. Few, D. Romano +1

Globular clusters are considerably more complex structures than previously thought, harbouring at least two stellar generations which present clearly distinct chemical abundances.…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 10 cited

Chemical evolution models: GRB host identification and cosmic dust predictions

V. Grieco, F. Matteucci, F. Calura +3

The nature of some GRB host galaxies has been investigated by means of chemical evolution models of galaxies of different morphological type following the evolution of the abundanc…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 72 cited

ALMA reveals a warm and compact starburst around a heavily obscured supermassive black hole at z=4.75

R. Gilli, C. Norman, C. Vignali +19

We report ALMA Cycle 0 observations at 1.3mm of LESS J033229.4-275619 (XID403), an Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy at in the Chandra Deep Field South hosting a Compton-thick…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 8 cited

A fast and accurate method to compute the mass return from multiple stellar populations

F. Calura, L. Ciotti, C. Nipoti

The mass returned to the ambient medium by aging stellar populations over cosmological times sums up to a significant fraction (20% - 30% or more) of their initial mass. This conti…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 79 cited

The Distribution of Metals in Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations of Dwarf Disk Galaxies

K. Pilkington, B. K. Gibson, C. B. Brook +9

We examine the chemical properties of 5 cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of an M33-like disc galaxy which have been shown to be consistent with the morphological characteris…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 219 cited

Metallicity Gradients in Disks: Do Galaxies Form Inside-Out?

K. Pilkington, C. G. Few, B. K. Gibson +13

We examine radial and vertical metallicity gradients using a suite of disk galaxy simulations, supplemented with two classic chemical evolution approaches. We determine the rate of…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 50 cited

The Lyman alpha forest flux probability distribution at z>3

F. Calura, E. Tescari, V. D'Odorico +4

We present a measurement of the Lyman alpha flux probability distribution function (PDF) measured from a set of eight high resolution quasar spectra with emission redshifts at 3.3…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 2 cited

The Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of Isolated Dwarf Galaxies

K. Pilkington, B. K. Gibson, F. Calura +3

Using a suite of simulations (Governato et al. 2010) which successfully produce bulgeless (dwarf) disk galaxies, we provide an analysis of their associated cold interstellar media…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 26 cited

The Cold Gas Content of Bulgeless Dwarf Galaxies

K. Pilkington, B. K. Gibson, F. Calura +8

We present an analysis of the neutral hydrogen (HI) properties of a fully cosmological hydrodynamical dwarf galaxy, run with varying simulation parameters. As reported by Governato…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 76 cited

The chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies with stellar and QSO dust production

A. Pipino, X. L. Fan, F. Matteucci +4

The presence of dust strongly affects the way we see galaxies and also the chemical abundances we measure in gas. It is therefore important to study he chemical evolution of galaxi…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 49 cited

Cosmic evolution of the CIV in high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations

E. Tescari, M. Viel, V. D'Odorico +4

We investigate the properties of triply ionized Carbon (CIV) in the Intergalactic Medium using a set of high-resolution and large box-size cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 100 cited

The dust content of high-z submillimeter galaxies revealed by Herschel

P. Santini, R. Maiolino, B. Magnelli +38

We use deep observations taken with the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS), on board the Herschel satellite as part of the PACS evolutionary probe (PEP) guaranteed…