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We present a study of the chemical abundances of Solar neighbourhood stars associated to dynamical structures in the Milky Way's (thick) disk. These stars were identified as overdensity in the eccentricity range 0.3< ecc < 0.5 in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Amina Helmi , Mary Williams , K. C. Freeman , J. Bland-Hawthorn , G. De Silva

We use kinematical and chemical properties of 754 Corot stars to characterise the stellar populations of the Milky Way disc in three beams close the Galactic plane. From the atmospheric parameters derived in Gazzano et al. (2010) with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 J. -C. Gazzano , G. Kordopatis , M. Deleuil , P. de Laverny , A. Recio-Blanco , V. Hill

[Abridged abstract] We have performed an abundance analysis for 176 F- and G- dwarfs of the Galactic thick disk component. Using accurate radial velocities combined with $Hipparcos$ astrometry, kinematics (U, V, and W) and Galactic orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bacham E. Reddy , David L. Lambert , Carlos Allende Prieto

We search for the existence of chemically-distinct stellar components in the solar neighbourhood using published data. Extending earlier work, we show that when the abundances of Fe, alpha elements, and the r-process element Eu are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Kim A. Venn , Kenneth C. Freeman , Borja Anguiano

Based on the LAMOST survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we use low-resolution spectra of 130,043 F/G-type dwarf stars to study the kinematics and metallicity properties of the Galactic disk. Our study shows that the stars with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Yingjie Jing , Cuihua Du , Jiayin Gu , Yunpeng Jia , Xiyan Peng , Yuqin Chen , Zhenyu Wu , Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Zihuang Cao , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Yong Zhang

By selecting in the RAVE-DR4 survey the stars located between 1 and 2 kpc above the Galactic plane, we question the consistency of the simplest three-component model (thin disc, thick disc, halo) for the Milky Way. We confirm that the…

We have undertaken the study of the elemental abundances and kinematic properties of a metal-poor sample of candidate thick-disk stars selected from the RAVE spectroscopic survey of bright stars to differentiate among the present scenarios…

Understanding the Milky Way disc formation requires characterising its structural and kinematic properties as functions of stellar age. Using red giant stars from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia DR3, we model the age-dependent stellar kinematics with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 Natsuki Funakoshi , Daisuke Kawata , Jason L. Sanders , Ioana Ciucă , Robert J. J. Grand , HanYuan Zhāng

Recent observations demonstrate that the thin and thick disks of the Galaxy have different chemical abundance trends and evolution timescales. The relative abundances of $\alpha$-elements in the thick Galactic disk are increased relative to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Nykytyuk , T. V. Mishenina

We combine the estimated metallicities [Fe/H], abundances [\alpha/Fe], positions and motions of a sample of 27,500 local (7<R/kpc<9, 0.5<|z|/kpc<2.5) SDSS/SEGUE G-type dwarf stars to investigate the chemo-orbital properties of the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Chao Liu , Glenn van de Ven

The history of the Milky Way Galaxy is written in the properties of its stellar populations. Here we analyse stars observed as part of surveys of local dwarf spheroidal galaxies, but which from their kinematics are highly probable to be…

Within a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, we form a disc galaxy with sub- components which can be assigned to a thin stellar disc, thick disk, and a low mass stellar halo via a chemical decomposition. The thin and thick disc…

(Abridged) We analyze chemical and kinematical properties of about 850 FGK solar neighborhood long-lived dwarfs observed with the HARPS high-resolution spectrograph. The stars in the sample have logg > 4 dex, 5000 < Teff < 6500 K, and -1.39…

We present a comprehensive chemical and age orbital cartography of the Galactic high-$\alpha$ disc using subgiant stars with precise ages, element abundances, and full phase-space information from the \textsl{LAMOST--Gaia} data set.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Furkan Akbaba , Danny Horta , Olcay Plevne

Breaks in the radial luminosity profiles of galaxies have been until now mostly studied averaged over discs. Here we study separately breaks in thin and thick discs in 70 edge-on galaxies using imaging from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar…

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.…

Recent spectroscopic observations in the Milky Way suggest that the chemically defined thick disk (stars with high [alpha/Fe] ratios and thus old) has a significantly smaller scale-length than the thin disk. This is in apparent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Minchev , M. Martig , D. Streich , C. Scannapieco , R. S. de Jong , M. Steinmetz

We study the detailed properties of the radial metallicity gradient in the stellar disk of our Galaxy to constrain its chemical and structural evolution. For this purpose we select and analyze $\sim$ 18,500 disk stars taken from two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Daisuke Toyouchi , Masashi Chiba

We analyze the global structure of 34 late-type, edge-on, undisturbed, disk galaxies spanning a wide range of mass. We measure structural parameters for the galaxies using two-dimensional least-squares fitting to our $R$-band photometry.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Yoachim , Julianne J. Dalcanton

Aims. We explore the outer Galactic disc up to a Galactocentric distance of 30 kpc to derive its parameters and measure the magnitude of its flare. Methods. We obtained the 3D density of stars of type F8V-G5V with a colour selection from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 M. Lopez-Corredoira , J. Molgo