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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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Environmental dependence of metallicity gradients (∇r[Z/H]). Left: metallicity gradients as a function of the local projected density (ηk). Right: metallicity gradients as a function of the H I deficiency (DefHI). All galaxies are color-coded by their light-weighted stellar age (﹩\mathrm{log}{\rm{Age}}[{\rm{yr}}]﹩). In the right panel, right-pointing triangles with arrows represent galaxies with H I upper limits (lower limits for DefHI). In each panel, the solid green line and the surrounding shaded band represent the overall trend and its uncertainty, derived from a Gaussian running median. The Spearman correlation coefficient (r) and the p-value are displayed in each panel. Gray dashed horizontal and vertical lines mark the zero-point for each parameter.

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