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Observations show that radial metallicity gradients in disk galaxies are relatively shallow, if not flat, especially at large galactocentric distances and for galaxies in the high-redshift universe. Given that star formation and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Chao-Chin Yang , Mark Krumholz

A simple model for the evolution of disc galaxies is presented. We adopt three numbers from observations of the Milky Way disc, the local surface mass density, the stellar scale length (of the assumedly exponential disc) and the amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Major mergers or/and the repeated minor mergers lead to dynamical heating of disks of galaxies. We analyze the available data on the velocity dispersion of stellar disks of S-S0 galaxies, including the new observational data obtained at 6m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 A. Zasov , A. Saburova , I. Katkov

We have investigated the possibilities to quantify how much stars move in the Milky Way stellar disk due to diffuse processes (i.e. so called blurring) and due to influences from spiral arms and the bar (i.e. so called churning). To this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 Sofia Feltzing , J. Bradley Bowers , Oscar Agertz

We investigate the influence of stellar migration caused by minor mergers (mass ratio from 1:70 to 1:8) on the radial distribution of chemical abundances in the disks of Milky Way-like galaxies during the last four Gyr. A GPU-based pure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-01 Igor A. Zinchenko , Peter Berczik , Eva K. Grebel , Leonid S. Pilyugin , Andreas Just

The radial metallicity distribution in the Galactic thin disc represents a crucial constraint for modelling disc formation and evolution. Open clusters allow us to derive both the radial metallicity distribution and its evolution over time.…

As stars traverse the Milky Way, their orbits evolve through perturbations that alter their orbital radii. These changes arise from two mechanisms: churning, which modifies angular momentum, and blurring, which induces eccentric orbits…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-18 M. L. L. Dantas , R. Smiljanic , R. S. de Souza , P. B. Tissera , L. Magrini

Despite the recent advancements in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, fully self-consistent simulations are still unable to make the detailed predictions necessary for the planned and ongoing large spectroscopic and photometry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Ivan Minchev , Cristina Chiappini , Marie Martig

We study the role of radial motions of stars and gas on the evolution of abundance profiles in the Milky Way disk. We investigate, in a parametrized way, the impact of radial flows of gas and radial migration of stars induced mainly by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 M. Kubryk , N. Prantzos , E. Athanassoula

We present measurements of fundamental astrophysical properties of nearby, low-mass, K- and M-dwarfs from our DISCOS survey (DIameterS of COol Stars). The principal goal of our study is the determination of linear radii and effective…

We develop and apply a model to quantify the global efficiency of radial orbit migration among stars in the Milky Way disk. This model parameterizes the possible star formation and enrichment histories, radial birth profiles, and combines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Neige Frankel , Hans-Walter Rix , Yuan-Sen Ting , Melissa K. Ness , David W. Hogg

The temporal behaviour of the radial abundance gradients has important consequences for models of the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. We present a comparison of the time variation of the abundance gradients in the Milky Way disk as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. J. Maciel , L. G. Lago , R. D. D. Costa

This note attempts to interpret some of the recent findings about a downtrend in the mean azimuthal velocity of low [alpha/Fe] thin disc stars with increasing metallicity. The presence of such a trend was predicted in the model of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralph Schoenrich

A detailed measurement is made of the metallicity distributions, kinematics and dynamics of the thin and thick disks, across a large disk volume (5.0 $\leq$ $R$ $\leq$ 15.0 kpc and $|Z|$ $\leq$3.0 kpc), by using the LAMOST-APOGEE red clump…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-20 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Biwei Jiang , Xiaowei Liu

We investigate the electron temperature gradient in the galactic disk as measured by young HII regions on the basis of radio recombination lines and the corresponding gradient in planetary nebulae (PN) based on [OIII] electron temperatures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. J. Maciel , C. Quireza , R. D. D. Costa

Different stellar sub-populations of the Milky Way's stellar disk are known to have different vertical scale heights, their thickness increasing with age. Using SEGUE spectroscopic survey data, we have recently shown that mono-abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-05-22 Jo Bovy , Hans-Walter Rix , David W. Hogg

We have investigated the abundance of several chemical elements in two large stellar samples kinematically representative of the thin and the thick disks of the Galaxy. Chemical, kinematical and age data have been collected from high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pascal Girard , Caroline Soubiran

Stellar migration is an important dynamical process in Galactic disk. Here we model the radial stellar migration in the Galactic disk with an analytical method, then add it to detailed Galactic chemical evolution model to study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yue Wang , Gang Zhao

We present a multi-zone galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model for the Milky Way that takes the most recently updated yields of major nucleosynthesis channels into account. It incorporates physical processes commonly found in previous GCE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Boquan Chen , Michael R. Hayden , Sanjib Sharma , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Chiaki Kobayashi , Amanda I. Karakas

Using a sample of 31 main-sequence OB stars located between galactocentric distances 8.4 - 15.6 kpc, we aim to probe the present-day radial abundance gradients of the Galactic disk. The analysis is based on high-resolution spectra obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 G. A. Braganca , S. Daflon , T. Lanz , K. Cunha , T. Bensby , P. J. McMillan , C. D. Garmany , J. W. Glaspey , M. Borges Fernandes , M. S. Oey , I. Hubeny