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The exploration of the spatial distribution of chemical abundances in star-forming regions in galactic discs provides clues to understand the complex interplay of physical processes that regulate the star formation activity and the chemical enrichment across a galaxy. We study the azimuthal variations of the normalized oxygen abundance profiles in the highest numerical resolution run of the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) Project at $z=0$. We use young stellar populations to trace the abundances of star-forming regions. Oxygen profiles are estimated along different line of sights from a centrally located observer.The mean azimuthal variation in the EAGLE discs are $sim 0.12 pm 0.03$~dex~$R_{rm eff}^{-1}$ for slopes and $sim 0.12 pm 0.03$~dex for the zero points, in agreement with previous works. Metallicity gradients measured along random directions correlate with those determine by averaging over the whole discs although with a large dispersion. We find a slight trend for higher azimuthal variations in the disc components of low star-forming and bulge-dominated galaxies. We also investigate the metallicity profiles of stellar populations with higher and lower levels of enrichment than the average metallicity profiles, and we find that high star-forming region with high metallicity tend to have slightly shallower metallicity slopes compared with the overall metallicity gradient. The simulated azimuthal variations in the EAGLE discs are in global agreement with observations, although the large variety of metallicity gradients would encourage further exploration of the metal mixing in numerical simulations.
The azimuthal variation of the HII region oxygen abundance in spiral galaxies is a key observable for understanding how quickly oxygen produced by massive stars can be dispersed within the surrounding interstellar medium. Observational constraints on
We use the EAGLE simulations to study the oxygen abundance gradients of gas discs in galaxies within the stellar mass range [10^9.5, 10^10.8]Mo at z=0. The estimated median oxygen gradient is -0.011 (0.002) dex kpc^-1, which is shallower than observe
Galactic disc chemical evolution models generally ignore azimuthal surface density variation that can introduce chemical abundance azimuthal gradients. Recent observations, however, have revealed chemical abundance changes with azimuth in the gas and
Context. The distribution of elements in galaxies forms an important diagnostic tool to characterize the systems formation and evolution. This tool is however complex to use in practice, as galaxies are subject to a range of simultaneous physical pro
We use the eagle simulations to study the connection between the quenching timescale, $tau_{rm Q}$, and the physical mechanisms that transform star-forming galaxies into passive galaxies. By quantifying $tau_{rm Q}$ in two complementary ways - as the