The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Astrophysical JournalPublished 1 October 2004Open access
Christy Tremonti, Timothy M. Heckman, Guinevere Kauffmann, J. Brinchmann, Stéphane Charlot, Simon D. M. White
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