IMAGES IV: strong evolution of the oxygen abundance in gaseous phases of intermediate mass galaxies from z~ 0.8*

Authors :: Rodrigues, M.
Hammer, F.
Flores, H.
Puech, M.
Liang, Y. C.
Fuentes-Carrera, I.
Nesvadba, N.
Lehnert, M.
Yang, Y.
Amram, P.
Balkowski, C.
Cesarsky, C.
Dannerbauer, H.
Delgado, R.
Guiderdoni, B.
Kembhavi, A.
Neichel, B.
Östlin, G.
Pozzetti, L.
Ravikumar, C. D.
Rawat, A.
di Serego Alighieri, S.
Vergani, D.
Vernet, J.
Wozniak, H.
Rodrigues, M.
Hammer, F.
Flores, H.
Puech, M.
Liang, Y. C.
Fuentes-Carrera, I.
Nesvadba, N.
Lehnert, M.
Yang, Y.
Amram, P.
Balkowski, C.
Cesarsky, C.
Dannerbauer, H.
Delgado, R.
Guiderdoni, B.
Kembhavi, A.
Neichel, B.
Östlin, G.
Pozzetti, L.
Ravikumar, C. D.
Rawat, A.
di Serego Alighieri, S.
Vergani, D.
Vernet, J.
Wozniak, H.
Source :: Astronomy and Astrophysics; December 2008, Vol. 492 Issue: 2 p371-388, 18p
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: Context. Intermediate mass galaxies (> 1010$M_\odot$) at z~ 0.6 are the likeliest progenitors of the present-day, numerous population of spirals. There is growing evidence that they have evolved rapidly in the last 6 to 8 Gyr, and likely already have formed a significant fraction of their stellar mass, often showing perturbed morphologies and kinematics.

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