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Chemodynamical Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies: Metallicity Gradients and Scaling Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Chiaki Kobayashi
Chiaki Kobayashi*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, 85741 Garching, Germany
*
2E-mail: chiaki@mpa-garching.mpg.de
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Abstract

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We simulate the chemodynamical evolution of a hundred elliptical galaxies using our GRAPE-SPH code, and succeed in reproducing the radial metallicity gradients and the global scaling relations such as the fundamental plane. These observations cannot be explained by either monolithic collapse or by major merger alone. Rather it requires a model in which both formation processes arise, such as the present CDM scheme.

Keywords

methods: N-body simulationsgalaxies: abundancesgalaxies: elliptical and lenticularcDgalaxies: evolutiongalaxies: formation
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 21 , Issue 2: The Fifth Workshop on Galactic Chemodynamics , 2004 , pp. 183 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2004

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