The Relationships among Mass, Metallicity, and Morphology for Spiral Galaxies
Abstract
A brief discussion of recent results on the gas phase oxygen abundance in spiral galaxies is presented. Using those results, I explore the relationship between the characteristic abundance of a galaxy and both its mass and Hubble type. In closing, I speculate about what these relationships may imply for the origin of galaxy morphology. (SECTION: The Second Hubble Fellows Symposium)
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- September 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1086/133273
- Bibcode:
- 1993PASP..105.1006Z
- Keywords:
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- Elliptical Galaxies;
- Galactic Mass;
- Metallicity;
- Morphology;
- Spiral Galaxies;
- Abundance;
- Disk Galaxies;
- Galactic Bulge;
- Galactic Evolution;
- Astrophysics;
- GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS;
- GALAXIES: SPIRAL