de Carvalho, R. and Djorgovski, S. (1990) The mass-metallicity - Luminosity density relation for elliptical galaxies. In: Evolution of the Universe of Galaxies: Edwin Hubble Centennial Symposium. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. No.10. Astronomical Society of the Pacific , San Francisco, CA, pp. 106-108. ISBN 0-937707-28-7. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190814-141451441
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Global properties of elliptical galaxies form a two-dimensional family. One aspect of this 'fundamental plane' of ellipticals is a bivariate relation between the mass or luminosity, surface brightness or luminosity density, and a metallicity indicator (e.g., the M g line strength index, or a color). There is a second parameter in the mass-metallicity relation, identified here as the luminosity density. The existence of this relation can be understood in the context of dissipative galaxy formation, reflecting both the effect of galatic winds, and an analog of the Schmidt law for star formation for protoelliptical galaxies. Small, but systematic differences are found in the solutions for the field and for the cluster ellipticals, suggesting a systematic difference in their formative histories.
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| Additional Information: | © 1990 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. The results presented in this paper are preliminary, and a full account of this work will be submitted for publication in the near future. RDC is on leave from Observatorio Nacional, CNPq, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. SD is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow. We acknowledge a partial support from California Institute of Technology. | |||||||||
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