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On the evolution of simulated galaxies: the mass dependence in metallicity gradients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

Maider Miranda
Affiliation:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK email: [email protected] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Chris B. Brook
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Brad K. Gibson
Affiliation:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK email: [email protected] University of Hull, Hull, UK
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Making use of a fiducial set of simulated disc galaxies spanning a wide range of mass, we examine the influence of stellar mass in the radial metallicity gradients and compare to observational trends from Ho et al. (2015).

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