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most citedCALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: IV. Third Public data release

272 citations · 772 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Recalibration of the H surface brightness-radius relation for planetary nebulae using Gaia DR3: new distances and the Milky Way oxygen radial gradient

Oscar Cavichia, Hektor Monteiro, Miguel Cerviño +3

The spatial distribution of chemical elements in the Galactic disk provides key constraints on models of galaxy evolution. However, studies using planetary nebulae (PNe) as tracers…

astro-ph.GA2024

Analysis of the Internal Radial Gradient of Chemical Abundances in Spiral Galaxies from CALIFA

A. F. S. Cardoso, O. Cavichia, M. Mollá +1

The study of chemical evolution is of paramount importance for understanding the galaxies evolution. Models and observations propose an inside-out mechanism in the formation of spi…

astro-ph.GA2023

Chemical evolution models: the role of type Ia supernovae in the -elements over Iron relative abundances and their variations in time and space

O. Cavichia, M. Mollá, J. J. Bazán +6

The role of type Ia supernovae (SN Ia), mainly the Delay Time Distributions (DTDs) determined by the binary systems, and the yields of elements created by different explosion mecha…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The multi-zone chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge: predicting abundances for different radial zones

Oscar Cavichia, Mercedes Mollá, Juanjo J. Bazán

Due to its proximity, the stellar populations of the Galactic bulge (GB) can be resolved and can be studied in detail. This allows tracing the bulge metallicity distribution functi…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 35 cited

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 dust environment from photometric observation at the SOAR Telescope

E. Picazzio, I. V. Luk'yanyk, O. V. Ivanova +4

We report photometric observations of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 made on August 12, 2016 with the broadband B, V, R and I filters and the SOAR 4.1-meter telescope (Chile). We…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 42 cited

Photometric and spectroscopic analysis of Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 activity

O. V. Ivanova, I. V. Luk'yanyk, N. N. Kiselev +5

We carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at the 6-m BTA telescope (SAO RAS, Russia) and the 1.6-m telescope of the National Lab…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 23 cited

2D-Galactic chemical evolution: the role of the spiral density wave

Mercedes Mollá, Sheillah Wekesa, Oscar Cavichia +6

We present a 2-dimensional chemical evolution code applied to a Milky Way type galaxy, incorporating the role of spiral arms in shaping azimuthal abundance variations, and confront…

astro-ph.GA2019

A spectrophotometric study of planetary nebulae and HII regions in the M83 galaxy

Monique M. de Brito, Oscar Cavichia

Low and intermediate mass stars (0.8-8M) in the end of their evolution pass through a series of events of mass loss, which contributes for the enrichment of the interstellar…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1 cited

The formation of the Galactic bulge in an inside-out scenario

O. Cavichia, M. Mollá

Chemical evolution models (CEM) are important tools to understand the formation and evolution of the components of the Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies in the universe. The Gala…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 33 cited

The time evolution of the Milky Way's oxygen abundance gradient

M. Mollá, Á. I. Díaz, O. Cavichia +5

We study the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients as a function of time for the Milky Way Galaxy obtained with our {\sc Mulchem} chemical evolution model. We review the r…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 19 cited

Spectroscopic Observations of the Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at the SOAR Telescope

Oleksandra V. Ivanova, Enos Picazzio, Igor V. Luk'yanyk +2

We carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of comet 29P/ Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at the SOAR 4.1-meter telescope (Chile) on August 12, 2016. This paper presents the r…

astro-ph.GA2017

Modelling the formation of the galactic bulge

O. Cavichia, M. Mollá

In this work we have assumed a Hernquist model with an inside-out formation for the Galactic bulge and, using a chemical evolution model, we were able obtain the bulge metallicity…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 37 cited

Arm and interarm abundance gradients in CALIFA spiral galaxies

L. Sánchez-Menguiano, S. F. Sánchez, I. Pérez +23

Spiral arms are the most singular features in disc galaxies. These structures can exhibit different patterns, namely grand design and flocculent arms, with easily distinguishable c…

astro-ph.GA2017

Abundances in photoionized nebulae of the Local Group and nucleosynthesis of intermediate mass stars

W. J. Maciel, R. D. D. Costa, O. Cavichia

Photoionized nebulae, comprising HII regions and planetary nebulae, are excellent laboratories to investigate the nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of several elements in the…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 10 cited

The population of planetary nebulae near the Galactic centre: chemical abundances

O. Cavichia, R. D. D. Costa, W. J. Maciel +1

Planetary nebulae (PNe) constitute an important tool to study the chemical evolution of the Milky Way and other galaxies, probing the nucleosynthesis processes, abundance gradients…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

Chemical abundances of photoionized nebulae in the Local Group

W. J. Maciel, R. D. D. Costa, O. Cavichia

Photoionized nebulae comprise basically HII regions and planetary nebulae, and their abundances give important clues on the nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of their host gal…

astro-ph.SR2016

Improving the determination of chemical abundances in planetary nebulae

O. Cavichia, R. D. D. Costa, W. J. Maciel +1

Planetary nebulae are the products of the evolution of low and intermediate mass stars. The chemical property studies of these objects give important information about the elementa…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

The evolution of the radial gradient of Oxygen abundance in spiral galaxies

M. Mollá, A. I. Díaz, Y. Ascasibar +4

The aim of this work is to present our new series of chemical evolution models computed for spiral and low mass galaxies of different total masses and star formation efficiencies.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

The evolution of the Oxygen abundance radial gradient in the Milky Way Galaxy disk

M. Mollá, O. Cavichia, R. D. D Costa +3

We 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 form…

astro-ph.GA2016

Galactic Chemical Evolution

M. Mollá, O. Cavichia, R. da Costa +2

We analyze the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients resulting from our chemical evolution models calculated with different prescriptions for the star formation rate (SFR)…

astro-ph.GA2016

Properties of the outer regions of spiral disks: abundances, colors and ages

Mercedes Mollá, Angeles I. Díaz, Brad K. Gibson +2

We summarize the results obtained from our suite of chemical evolution models for spiral disks, computed for different total masses and star formation efficiencies. Once the gas, s…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

The role of gas infall in the evolution of disc galaxies

Mercedes Mollá, Ángeles I. Díaz, Brad K. Gibson +2

Spiral galaxies are thought to acquire their gas through a protracted infall phase resulting in the inside-out growth of their associated discs. For field spirals, this infall occu…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 272 cited

CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: IV. Third Public data release

S. F. Sánchez, R. García-Benito, S. Zibetti +60

This paper describes the Third Public Data Release (DR3) of the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey. Science-grade quality data for 667 galaxies are made public,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 187 cited

Shape of the oxygen abundance profiles in CALIFA face-on spiral galaxies

L. Sánchez-Menguiano, S. F. Sánchez, I. Pérez +25

We measured the gas abundance profiles in a sample of 122 face-on spiral galaxies observed by the CALIFA survey and included all spaxels whose line emission was consistent with sta…