The galactic disc age-metallicity relation
Abstract
New ages are computed for stars in the Solar Neighbourhood from the Edvardsson et al. (1993) data set. Distances derived from the Hipparcos parallaxes were adopted to obtain reliable ages (uncertainty less than 12%) for a subset of stars. There is no apparent age-metallicity relation for stars with an age less than 10 Gyr. Only if we consider older stars a slope of ~0.07 dex/Gyr appears. This relation is compared with those obtained from other methods, i.e. galactic open clusters, stellar population synthesis (star counts), and chemical evolution models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9709182,
title = {The galactic disc age-metallicity relation},
author = {Y. K. Ng and G. Bertelli and G. Carraro and L. Portinari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9709182},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages LaTeX, 3 postscript figures, to appear in proceedings ``1997 Pacific RIM conference on Stellar Astrophysics'', August 13-16, 1997, Hong Kong (China), K.L. Chan, K.S. Cheng and H.P. Singh (eds.), ASP Conference Series