Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

First look with JWST spectroscopy: Resemblance among z∼ 8 galaxies and local analogs

D Schaerer, R Marques-Chaves, L Barrufet… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Deep images and near-IR spectra of galaxies in the field of the lensing cluster SMACS
J0723. 3− 7327 were recently taken as part of the Early Release Observations (EROs) …

[HTML][HTML] A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, SP Tendulkar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes,. Their physical origin
remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources …

A survey of high-z galaxies: serra simulations

A Pallottini, A Ferrara, S Gallerani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce serra, a suite of zoom-in high-resolution (, at z= 7.7) cosmological simulations
including non-equilibrium chemistry and on-the-fly radiative transfer. The outputs are post …

The MOSDEF Survey: The Evolution of the Mass–Metallicity Relation from z= 0 to z∼ 3.3

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, T Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range z= 0–3.3
using samples of∼ 300 galaxies at z∼ 2.3 and∼ 150 galaxies at z∼ 3.3 from the MOSDEF …

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

KW Bannister, AT Deller, C Phillips, JP Macquart… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some
are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had …

Diagnostics for PopIII galaxies and direct collapse black holes in the early universe

K Nakajima, R Maiolino - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Forthcoming observational facilities will make the exploration of the early universe routine,
likely probing large populations of galaxies at very low metallicities. It will therefore be …

The mass–metallicity and the fundamental metallicity relation revisited on a fully Te-based abundance scale for galaxies

M Curti, F Mannucci, G Cresci… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The relationships between stellar mass, gas-phase metallicity and star-formation rate (ie the
mass–metallicity, MZR, and the fundamental metallicity relation, FMR) in the local Universe …

Dust attenuation curves in the local universe: demographics and new laws for star-forming galaxies and high-redshift analogs

S Salim, M Boquien, JC Lee - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the dust attenuation curves of 230,000 individual galaxies in the local universe,
ranging from quiescent to intensely star-forming systems, using GALEX, SDSS, and WISE …