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Disk galaxies viewed as thin planar structures resulting from the conservation of angular momentum of an initially rotating pre-galactic cloud allow merely a first-order model of galaxy formation. Still, the presence of vertically extended…

Based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan telescopes we present detailed elemental abundances for 20 red giant stars in the outer Galactic disk, located at Galactocentric distances between 9 and 13…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-28 T. Bensby , A. Alves-Brito , M. S. Oey , D. Yong , J. Meléndez

We analyse the phase-space structure of simulated thick discs that are the result of a significant merger between a disc galaxy and a satellite. Our main goal is to establish what would be the characteristic imprints of a merger origin for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Álvaro Villalobos , Amina Helmi

We study the radial metallicity gradient $\Delta[M/H]/\Delta R_g$ as a function of [Mg/Fe] and $|Z|$ with the help of a guiding radius based on the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment and Gaia and then analyze the radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-17 Yunpeng Jia , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Xiangxiang Xue , Jingkun Zhao , Chengqun Yang , Chengdong Li

We present a detailed analysis of the global and fine structure of four middle-mass disc galaxies obtained from simulations in a $\Lambda$CDM scenario. These objects have photometric D/T ratios in good agreement with those observed for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Mariola Doménech-Moral , Francisco J. Martínez-Serrano , Rosa Domínguez-Tenreiro , Arturo Serna

We present the first fluorine measurements in 12 normal giants belonging to the Galactic thin and thick disks using spectra obtained with the Phoenix infrared spectrometer on the 2.1m telescope at Kitt Peak. Abundances are determined from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 K. E. Brady , C. A. Pilachowski , V. Grisoni , Z. G. Maas , K. A. Nault

We present a determination of the thick disk iron abundance distribution obtained from an in situ sample of F/G stars. These stars are faint, $15 \simlt V \simlt 18$, selected on the basis of color, being a subset of the larger survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerard Gilmore , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , J. Bryn Jones

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has already begun to discover what will ultimately be thousands of exoplanets around nearby cool bright stars. These potential host stars must be well-understood to accurately characterize…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andreia Carrillo , Keith Hawkins , Brendan P. Bowler , William Cochran , Andrew Vanderburg

We analyze a new kinematic survey that includes accurate proper motions derived from SDSS DR7 positions, combined with multi-epoch measurements from the GSC-II database. By means of the SDSS spectro-photometric data (effective temperature,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , P. Re Fiorentin , R. L. Smart

We analyse the structure and chemical enrichment of a Milky Way-like galaxy with a stellar mass of 2 10^{10} M_sun, formed in a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. It is disk-dominated with a flat rotation curve, and has a disk scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-02 G. S. Stinson , J. Bovy , H. -W. Rix , C. Brook , R. Roškar , J. J. Dalcanton , A. V. Macciò , J. Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman , T. R. Quinn

Our sample of cool dwarf stars from previous papers is extended in this study including 15 moderately metal-deficient stars. The samples of halo and thick disk stars have overlapping metallicities with [Fe/H] in the region from -0.9 to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Mashonkina , T. Gehren , C. Travaglio , T. Borkova

We present kinematic measurements of thin and thick disk components in a sample of nine edge-on galaxies. We extract stellar and ionized gas rotation curves at and above the galaxies' midplanes using the Ca II triplet absorption features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Yoachim , Julianne J. Dalcanton

The kinematical properties of the Galactic Thick Disk are studied using absolute proper motions from the SPM3 Catalog and 2MASS near-infrared photometry for a sample of ~1200 red giants in the direction of the South Galactic Pole. The…

First results from a study into the abundance trends of oxygen in the Galactic thin and thick disks are presented. Oxygen abundances for 21 thick disk and 42 thin disk F and G dwarf stars based on very high resolution spectra (R\sim 215000)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing , I. Lundstrom

We analyse a sample of over 1000 stars from 32 fields imaged in the V and I bands with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera, on board of the Hubble Space Telescope. The fields are located at Galactic latitudes | b | >= 15deg and in various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. O. Kerber , S. C. Javiel , B. X. Santiago

Through the chemodynamical characterisation of metal-poor stars, one can efficiently probe the early history of the Milky Way. We aim at decontaminating a sample of $\sim$ 3M giant stars with Gaia DR3 XP-based \textit{Pristine-Gaia}…

The atmospheric parameters and abundances of Mg, Si, Ca, and Ti have been determined for 20 stars using the Gaia DR2 parallaxes, high-resolution spectra, and the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) line formation modeling. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Lyudmila Mashonkina , Maria Neretina , Tatyana Sitnova , Yuri Pakhomov

(Abridged) We perform an analysis of spectra and photometry for 22,770 stars included in the third data release (DR3) of the SDSS. We measure radial velocities and, based on a model-atmosphere analysis, derive estimates ofthe atmospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Allende Prieto , T. C. Beers , R. Wilhelm , H. J. Newberg , C. M. Rockosi , B. Yanny , Y. S. Lee

We have carried out a sample survey in UBVR photometry and proper motions in different directions in the Galaxy, as part of an investigation of galactic structure and evolution. Three fields in the direction of galactic anticentre, centre…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Devendra Ojha , Olivier Bienayme , Annie Robin , Michel Creze , Vijay Mohan

We analyze the 3D kinematics of a sample of $\sim 4400$ red clump stars ranging between 5 and 10 kpc from the Galactic center and up to 3 kpc from the Galactic plane. This sample is representative for the metal-rich ([Fe/H] = -0.6 to 0.5)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. I. Casetti-Dinescu , T. M. Girard , V. I. Korchagin , W. F van Altena