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Are “U-shape” age profiles a universal feature in spiral galaxies?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

Estrella Florido ,
Tomás Ruiz-Lara ,
Gareth Few ,
Brad Gibson ,
Isabel Pérez ,
Ivan Minchev  and
Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez
Estrella Florido
Affiliation:
Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain. email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y computacional, Universidad de Granada, E-18071
Tomás Ruiz-Lara
Affiliation:
Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain. email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y computacional, Universidad de Granada, E-18071
Gareth Few
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK
Brad Gibson
Affiliation:
E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, Department of Physics & Mathematics, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Isabel Pérez
Affiliation:
Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain. email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y computacional, Universidad de Granada, E-18071
Ivan Minchev
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez
Affiliation:
Dpto. de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Cantoblanco, Spain
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In this work we study the effect of satellite accretion on the building-up of the radial stellar age distribution in the discs of spiral galaxies. In addition, we analyse its effect on other chemical and dynamical properties of these systems up to their outskirts.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S321: Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts , March 2016 , pp. 133
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

References

Few, C. G., Gibson, B. K., Courty, S., Michel-Dansac, L., Brook, C. B., & Stinson, G. S. 2012, A&A, 547, A63 Google Scholar
Ruiz-Lara, T., Few, C. G., Gibson, B. K., Pérez, I., Florido, E., Minchev, I., & Sánchez-Blázquez, P. 2016, A&A, 586, A112 Google Scholar