Abundance Ratios in Early-Type Galaxies

dc.creatorPeletier, Reynier
dc.date1999-04-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:31:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:31:19Z
dc.descriptionAlthough evidence is accumulating that abundance ratios in galaxies are often non-solar, they are far from understood. I resume the current evidence for non-solar abundance ratios, supplementing the recent review by Worthey (1998) with some new results. It appears that the Mg/Fe abundance ratio only depends on the mass of the galaxy, not on the formation time-scale. For massive galaxies [Mg/Fe] > 0, while small galaxies show solar abundance ratios. Information about abundances of other element is scarce, but new evidence is given that [Ca/Fe] is solar, or slightly lower than solar, contrary to what is expected for an alpha-element.
dc.description14 pages, including 5 postscript figures, uses epsf.sty. Invited review to appear in "The Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales", eds. J.E. Beckman and T.J. Mahoney, ASP Conf. Ser
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904280
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904280
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/14112
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleAbundance Ratios in Early-Type Galaxies
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