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 …

Milky Way Star Clusters and Gaia: A Review of the Ongoing Revolution

T Cantat-Gaudin - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented quality of the astrometric measurements obtained with the ESA Gaia
spacecraft have initiated a revolution in Milky Way astronomy. Studies of star clusters in …

A Gaia DR2 view of the open cluster population in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, C Jordi, A Vallenari… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic
disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release …

Clusters and mirages: cataloguing stellar aggregates in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, F Anders - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Many of the open clusters listed in modern catalogues were initially reported by
visual astronomers as apparent overdensities of bright stars. As observational techniques …

A fundamental relation between mass, star formation rate and metallicity in local and high-redshift galaxies

F Mannucci, G Cresci, R Maiolino… - Monthly Notices of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We show that the mass–metallicity relation observed in the local universe is due to a more
general relation between stellar mass M★, gas-phase metallicity and star formation rate …

A characteristic oxygen abundance gradient in galaxy disks unveiled with CALIFA

SF Sánchez, FF Rosales-Ortega… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
We present the largest and most homogeneous catalog of H ii regions and associations
compiled so far. The catalog comprises more than 7000 ionized regions, extracted from 306 …

SDSS IV MaNGA–metallicity and nitrogen abundance gradients in local galaxies

F Belfiore, R Maiolino, C Tremonti… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We study the gas phase metallicity (O/H) and nitrogen abundance gradients traced by star-
forming regions in a representative sample of 550 nearby galaxies in the stellar mass range …

The GALAH survey: Tracing the Galactic disc with open clusters

L Spina, YS Ting, GM De Silva, N Frankel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Open clusters are unique tracers of the history of our own Galaxy's disc. According to our
membership analysis based on Gaia astrometry, out of the 226 potential clusters falling in …

Quantifying the uncertainties of chemical evolution studies-II. Stellar yields

D Romano, AI Karakas, M Tosi, F Matteucci - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 - aanda.org
Context. Galactic chemical evolution models are useful tools for interpreting the large body
of high-quality observational data on the chemical composition of stars and gas in galaxies …

On the metallicity of open clusters-III. Homogenised sample

M Netopil, E Paunzen, U Heiter, C Soubiran - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. Open clusters are known as excellent tools for various topics in Galactic research.
For example, they allow accurately tracing the chemical structure of the Galactic disc …