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Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy

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Star formation

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Luminous And Obscured Quasars And Their Host Galaxies, Agnese Del Moro, David M. Alexander, Franz E. Bauer, Emanuele Daddi, Dale D. Kocevski, Flora Stanley, Daniel H. Mcintosh Jan 2018

Luminous And Obscured Quasars And Their Host Galaxies, Agnese Del Moro, David M. Alexander, Franz E. Bauer, Emanuele Daddi, Dale D. Kocevski, Flora Stanley, Daniel H. Mcintosh

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The most heavily-obscured, luminous quasars might represent a specific phase of the evolution of the actively accreting supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, possibly related to mergers. We investigated a sample of the most luminous quasars at z ≈ 1 − 3 in the GOODS fields, selected in the mid-infrared band through detailed spectral energy distribution (SED) decomposition. The vast majority of these quasars (~80%) are obscured in the X-ray band and ~30% of them to such an extent, that they are undetected in some of the deepest (2 and 4 Ms) Chandra X-ray data. Although no clear relation …


A Local Leaky-Box Model For The Local Stellar Surface Density-Gas Surface Density-Gas Phase Metallicity Relation, Guangtun Ben Zhu, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Timothy M. Heckman, Nadia L. Zakamska, Sebastian F. Sánchez, Renbin Yan, Jonathan Brinkman Mar 2017

A Local Leaky-Box Model For The Local Stellar Surface Density-Gas Surface Density-Gas Phase Metallicity Relation, Guangtun Ben Zhu, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Timothy M. Heckman, Nadia L. Zakamska, Sebastian F. Sánchez, Renbin Yan, Jonathan Brinkman

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We revisit the relation between the stellar surface density, the gas surface density and the gas-phase metallicity of typical disc galaxies in the local Universe with the SDSS-IV/MaNGA survey, using the star formation rate surface density as an indicator for the gas surface density. We show that these three local parameters form a tight relationship, confirming previous works (e.g. by the PINGS and CALIFA surveys), but with a larger sample. We present a new local leaky-box model, assuming star-formation history and chemical evolution is localized except for outflowing materials. We derive closed-form solutions for the evolution of stellar surface density, …


The Jcmt Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey – Xi. Environmental Variations In The Atomic And Molecular Gas Radial Profiles Of Nearby Galaxies, Angus Mok, C. D. Wilson, J. H. Knapen, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, E. Brinks, E. Rosolowsky Feb 2017

The Jcmt Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey – Xi. Environmental Variations In The Atomic And Molecular Gas Radial Profiles Of Nearby Galaxies, Angus Mok, C. D. Wilson, J. H. Knapen, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, E. Brinks, E. Rosolowsky

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We present an analysis of the radial profiles of a sample of 43 H I-flux selected spiral galaxies from the Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey (NGLS) with resolved James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) CO J = 3 − 2 and/or Very Large Array (VLA) H I maps. Comparing the Virgo and non-Virgo populations, we confirm that the H i discs are truncated in the Virgo sample, even for these relatively H i-rich galaxies. On the other hand, the H2 distribution is enhanced for the Virgo galaxies near their centres, resulting in higher H2 to H I ratios and steeper …


Sdss-Iv Manga: Spatially Resolved Star Formation Histories In Galaxies As A Function Of Galaxy Mass And Type, D. Goddard, D. Thomas, C. Maraston, K. Westfall, J. Etherington, R. Riffel, M. D. Mallmann, Z. Zheng, M. Argudo-Fernández, J. Lian, M. Bershady, K. Bundy, N. Drory, D. Law, Renbin Yan, D. Wake, A. Weijmans, D. Bizyaev, J. Brownstein, R. R. Lane, R. Maiolino, K. Masters, M. Merrifield, C. Nitschelm, K. Pan, A. Roman-Lopes, T. Storchi-Bergmann, D. P. Schneider Dec 2016

Sdss-Iv Manga: Spatially Resolved Star Formation Histories In Galaxies As A Function Of Galaxy Mass And Type, D. Goddard, D. Thomas, C. Maraston, K. Westfall, J. Etherington, R. Riffel, M. D. Mallmann, Z. Zheng, M. Argudo-Fernández, J. Lian, M. Bershady, K. Bundy, N. Drory, D. Law, Renbin Yan, D. Wake, A. Weijmans, D. Bizyaev, J. Brownstein, R. R. Lane, R. Maiolino, K. Masters, M. Merrifield, C. Nitschelm, K. Pan, A. Roman-Lopes, T. Storchi-Bergmann, D. P. Schneider

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We study the internal gradients of stellar population properties within 1.5 Re for a representative sample of 721 galaxies, with stellar masses ranging between 109 M and 1011.5 M from the SDSS-IV MaNGA Integral-Field-Unit survey. Through the use of our full spectral fitting code firefly, we derive light- and mass-weighted stellar population properties and their radial gradients, as well as full star formation and metal enrichment histories. We also quantify the impact that different stellar population models and full spectral fitting routines have on the derived stellar population properties and the radial gradient measurements. In …