The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Tremonti, Christy; M. Heckman, Timothy; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Brinchmann, J.; Charlot, Stéphane; D. M. White, Simon; Seibert, Mark; W. Peng, Eric; J. Schlegel, David; Uomoto, Alan; Fukugita, M.; Brinkmann, J.

doi:10.1086/423264

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The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Published in The Astrophysical Journal • Oct 1, 2004

Authors:

Christy Tremonti

Timothy M. Heckman

Guinevere Kauffmann

Abstract

We utilize Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging and spectroscopy of ~53,000 star-forming galaxies at z ~ 0.1 to study the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity. We derive gas-phase oxygen abundances and stellar masses using new techniques that make use of the latest stellar evolutionar...

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Physics

Astrophysics

Metallicity

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