Galaxies Below the Fundamental Metallicity Relation Are Morphologically Disturbed: Merian H alpha Morphologies and DESI Metallicities

arXiv:2609.26887 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Terminology

• Metallicity — 77× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 38× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• National Science Foundation — 4× in this paper
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 2× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hyper Suprime-Cam — 2× in this paper
• Aperture Correction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design
• Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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