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mass-metallicity relation: a standalone construct

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Astrophysics

the correlation in which more massive galaxies have higher gas-phase metal abundances.

In astrophysics, mass-metallicity relation refers to the correlation in which more massive galaxies have higher gas-phase metal abundances. This meaning comes from Tremonti (2004) in The Astrophysical Journal.[1]

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References

Tremonti, C. A., Heckman, T. M., Kauffmann, G., Brinchmann, J., Charlot, S., White, S. D. M., Seibert, M., Peng, E. W., Schlegel, D. J., Uomoto, A., Fukugita, M., & Brinkmann, J. (2004). The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Astrophysical Journal, 613(2), 898-913. https://doi.org/10.1086/423264

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