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The growth of mass and metallicity in bulges and disks: CALIFA perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

R. M. González Delgado
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
E. Pérez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
R. Cid Fernandes
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
R. García-Benito
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
A. de Amorim
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
S. F. Sánchez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
B. Husemann
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik, Postdam, Germany
R. López Fernández
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
C. Cortijo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
E. Lacerda
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
D. Mast
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
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Abstract

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CALIFA (Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area) is a 3D spectroscopic survey of 600 nearby galaxies that we are obtaining with [email protected] at Calar Alto (Sánchez et al. 2012; Husemann et al. 2012). This pioneer survey is providing valuable clues on how the mass and metallicity grow in the different galactic spatial sub-components (“bulge” and “disk”). Processed through spectral synthesis techniques, CALIFA datacubes allow us to, for the first time, spatially resolve the star formation history of galaxies (Cid Fernandes et al. 2012). The richness of this approach is already evident from the results obtained for the first ~ 100 galaxies of the sample (Pérez et al. 2012). We have found that galaxies grow inside-out, and that the growth rate depends on a galaxy's mass. Here, we present the radial variations of physical properties sorting galaxies by their morphological type (Figure 1). We have found a good correlation between the stellar mass surface density, stellar ages and metallicities and the Hubble type, but being the the early type spirals (Sa-Sbc) the galaxies with strong negative age and metallicity gradient from the bulge to the disk.

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