Internal Structure, Not Environment, Shapes Metallicity Gradients in Low-Mass Galaxies from MaNGA

arXiv:2609.39689 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Metallicity — 152× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 28× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Monte Carlo Analysis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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