Journal article
The stellar metallicity distribution of disc galaxies and bulges in cosmological simulations
Abstract
By means of high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way (MW) like disc galaxies, we conduct an analysis of the associated stellar metallicity distribution functions (MDFs). After undertaking a kinematic decomposition of each simulation into spheroid and disc subcomponents, we compare the predicted MDFs to those observed in the solar neighbourhood and the Galactic bulge. The effects of the star formation density …
Authors
Calura F; Gibson BK; Michel-Dansac L; Stinson GS; Cignoni M; Dotter A; Pilkington K; House EL; Brook CB; Few CG
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 427, No. 2, pp. 1401–1417
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
December 1, 2012
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22052.x
ISSN
0035-8711