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most citedLocal variations of the radial metallicity gradient in a simulated NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue and their implications for (extra-)galactic studies

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astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The assembly history of NGC 1365 through chemical archaeology

Lisa J. Kewley, Kathryn Grasha, Alex Garcia +8

Galaxies build through infalling gas and galaxy mergers. Tracking the dynamical history of a galaxy from a single snapshot in time is notoriously difficult. We show that the dynami…

astro-ph.GA2026

The First Systematic Survey of Stellar Halos in High-Inclination Galaxies Reveals Unusually Quiescent Merger Histories of Nearby Galaxies

Bojun Tao, Hong-Xin Zhang, Wenting Wang +8

Stellar halos are the only major stellar component of disk galaxies that lack systematic observational characterization, yet they encode critical information about galaxy merger hi…

astro-ph.GA2025

How Mergers and Flybys Shape Azimuthal Age Patterns in Spiral Galaxies

Qian-Hui Chen, Alex M. Garcia, Zefeng Li +7

Spiral structures are one of the most common features in galaxies, yet their origins and evolution remain debated. Stellar age distributions offer crucial insights into galaxy evol…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations I: Tension Between Smooth Stellar Feedback Models and Observations

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Aniket Bhagwat +14

The metallicity of galaxies, and its variation with galactocentric radius, provides key insights into the formation histories of galaxies and the physical processes driving their e…

astro-ph.GA2025

The MAGPI Survey: the kinematic morphology-density relation (or lack thereof) and the Hubble sequence at

Caroline Foster, Mark W. Donoghoe, Andrew Battisti +26

This work presents visual morphological and dynamical classifications for 637 spatially resolved galaxies, most of which are at intermediate redshift (), in the Middle-Ag…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Local variations of the radial metallicity gradient in a simulated NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue and their implications for (extra-)galactic studies

Sven Buder, Tobias Buck, Qian-Hui Chen +1

Radial metallicity gradients are fundamental to understanding galaxy formation and evolution. In our high-resolution simulation of a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue, we analyze the li…

astro-ph.GA2024

The spatially resolved relation between dust, gas, and metal abundance with the TYPHOON survey

Hye-Jin Park, Andrew J. Battisti, Emily Wisnioski +12

We present the spatially resolved relationship between the dust-to-gas mass ratio (DGR) and gas-phase metallicity (Zgas or 12+log(O/H)) (i.e., DGR-Zgas relation) of 11 nearby galax…

astro-ph.GA2024

Quantifying azimuthal variations within the interstellar medium of z ~ 0 spiral galaxies with the TYPHOON survey

Qian-Hui Chen, Kathryn Grasha, Andrew J. Battisti +13

Most star formation in the local Universe occurs in spiral galaxies, but their origin remains an unanswered question. Various theories have been proposed to explain the development…

astro-ph.GA2024

Does the Fundamental Metallicity Relation Evolve with Redshift? II: The Evolution in Normalisation of the Mass-Metallicity Relation

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison +10

The metal content of galaxies is a direct probe of the baryon cycle. A hallmark example is the relationship between a galaxy's stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and gas-phas…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MAGPI Survey: Evolution of radial trends in star formation activity across cosmic time

Marcie Mun, Emily Wisnioski, Andrew J. Battisti +19

Using adaptive optics with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy (MAGPI…

astro-ph.GA2024

Does the Fundamental Metallicity Relation Evolve with Redshift? I: The Correlation Between Offsets from the Mass-Metallicity Relation and Star Formation Rate

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Sara Ellison +8

The scatter about the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) has a correlation with the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies. The lack of evidence of evolution in correlated scatter at $…