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 …

A comprehensive measurement of the local value of the Hubble constant with 1 km s− 1 Mpc− 1 uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES team

AG Riess, W Yuan, LM Macri, D Scolnic… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of Cepheid variables in the
host galaxies of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) used to calibrate the Hubble constant (H 0) …

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 …

Direct T e-based metallicities of z= 2–9 galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec: empirical metallicity calibrations applicable from reionization to cosmic noon

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, MW Topping… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report detections of the [O iii] λ4364 auroral emission line for 16 galaxies at z= 2.1–8.7,
measured from JWST/NIRSpec observations obtained as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early …

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 …

PHIBSS: unified scaling relations of gas depletion time and molecular gas fractions

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Saintonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations between galaxy-integrated
molecular gas masses, stellar masses, and star formation rates (SFRs), in the framework of …

The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z ≥ 8

R Kannan, V Springel, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The early release science results from JWST have yielded an unexpected abundance of
high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of galaxy …

The host galaxy and redshift of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102

SP Tendulkar, CG Bassa, JM Cordes… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB 121102) has provided the first
unambiguous association (chance coincidence probability p≲ 3× 10− 4) of an FRB with an …

The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments

J Schaye, RA Crain, RG Bower… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We introduce the Virgo Consortium's Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their
Environments (EAGLE) project, a suite of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the …