De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies
By R. Maiolino, F. Mannucci. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2018
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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, provide unique information on the galactic evolutionary processes across the cosmic epochs. In recent years major progress has been made in constraining the chemical evolution of galaxies and inferring key information relevant to our understanding of the main mechanisms involved in galaxy evolution. In this review we provide an overview of these various areas. After an overview of the methods used to constrain the chemical enrichment in galaxies and their environment, we discuss the observed scaling relations between metallicity and galaxy properties, the observed relative chemical abundances, how the chemical elements are distributed within galaxies, and how these properties evolve across the cosmic epochs. We discuss how the various observational findings compare with the predictions from theoretical models and numerical cosmological simulations. Finally, we briefly discuss the open problems and the prospects for major progress in this field in the nearby future.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation
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- Host Galaxy Properties and Offset Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts: Implications for Their Progenitors (2020, methodology): “To infer the gas-phase metallicities of the FRB hosts, we rely on commonly used diagnostic ratios of strong nebular emission lines (see Maiolino & Mannucci 2019, for a recent review).”
- Evidence from the H3 Survey That the Stellar Halo Is Entirely Comprised of Substructure (2020, background): “…off in the top left ([α/Fe] rich and [Fe/H] poor) and end up toward the bottom right ([α/Fe] poor and [Fe/H] rich) as they evolve and Type Ia supernovae take over from Type II supernovae as the chief pollutants of the ISM (e.g., Tinsley 1980; Matteucci & Greggio 1986; Maiolino & Mannucci 2019).”
- The mass–metallicity and the fundamental metallicity relation revisited on a fully Te-based abundance scale for galaxies (2019, background): “…ISM (i.e. the gas metallicity) is therefore one of the key physical quantities that has to be considered in galaxy evolution studies, as it is strongly sensitive to all the processes that drive and regulate the baryon cycle within galaxies (see Maiolino & Mannucci 2019 for a review on the topic).”
- Big Three Dragons: A z = 7.15 Lyman-break galaxy detected in [O iii] 88 μm, [C ii] 158 μm, and dust continuum with ALMA (2018, background): “These would in turn indicate that lower mass galaxies have lower metallicity and/or higher ionization states (cf., Maiolino & Mannucci 2019; Nakajima et al. 2016).”
- The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. I. Survey Design and Release Plans (2022, background): “Gas-phase metallicities are one of the key probes of this cycle as they are sensitive to the flow of material from galaxies into the circumgalactic medium (CGM; see Maiolino & Mannucci 2019; Kewley et al. 2019 for recent reviews).”
- JWST Census for the Mass–Metallicity Star Formation Relations at z = 4–10 with Self-consistent Flux Calibration and Proper Metallicity Calibrators (2023, methodology): “…2023a ) also examine the MZ – star formation rate ( SFR ) relation, indicated to be a fundamental relation from z = 0 to z 2 – 3 ( Mannucci et al. 2010; Maiolino & Mannucci 2019; Sanders et al. 2021, and the references therein ) , suggesting that no clear evolution is seen from z = 0 – 3 to z =…”