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A Strong Stellar Age–Metallicity Gradient Relation in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies Driven by Stellar Migration and Environmental Quenching

  • Authors: Tie Li, Hong-Xin Zhang, Wenhe Lyu, Weibin Sun, Bojun Tao, Weiyu Ding, Xu Kong, Guangwen Chen, Jianhui, Lian, Yong Shi, Fuyan Bian, Xin Li, Xiaoling Yu, Zhiyuan Zheng, Yanmei Chen, Qiusheng Gu, Junfeng Wang, Shude Mao, Kai Zhu

Tie Li et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Stellar population and gas-phase metallicity gradients across different galaxy scaling relations. Left: stellar metallicity gradients (∇r[Z/H]) as a function of morphological T type. Data points are color-coded by light-weighted stellar age (﹩\mathrm{log}({{\rm{Age}}}_{{\rm{L}}}/{\rm{yr}})﹩). Middle: stellar age gradients (∇rAge) as a function of light-weighted stellar age. Data points are color-coded by stellar mass (﹩\mathrm{log}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })﹩). Right: comparison between gas-phase metallicity gradients (∇r[O/H]gas) and stellar metallicity gradients (∇r[Z/H]). Data points are color-coded by light-weighted stellar age (﹩\mathrm{log}({{\rm{Age}}}_{{\rm{L}}}/{\rm{yr}})﹩). In each panel, the solid green line and its surrounding shaded region denote the global trend and the associated uncertainty, determined via a running median with a Gaussian kernel. The Spearman correlation coefficient (r) and the associated p-value are displayed in each panel. The horizontal and vertical lines mark a flat gradient. For more details, see Section 5.1 for the left panel and Section 5.2 for the middle and right panels.

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