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(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…

Galactic disks typically exhibit a negative radial metallicity gradient, indicating faster enrichment in the inner regions. Recent studies report that this gradient becomes flatter with increasing stellar age in the Milky Way's (MW) thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Ao Chen , Juntai Shen , Chun Wang , Yang Huang

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

Models of the chemical evolution of our Galaxy are extended to include radial migration of stars and flow of gas through the disc. The models track the production of both iron and alpha elements. A model is chosen that provides an excellent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ralph Schoenrich , James Binney

We study the role of radial migration of stars on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk. In particular, we are interested in the impact of that process on the local properties of the disk (age-metallicity relation and its dispersion,…

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

We calculate the ages, orbits and phase-space coordinates for a sample of $\sim$4 million LAMOST and Gaia stars. The ages are crossmatched and compared with values from two other popular age catalogs which derive the ages using different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 John J. Vickers , Juntai Shen , Zhao-Yu Li

The vertical metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk offers valuable insights into the disk's formation and chemical evolution over time. We utilized the LAMOST-LRS young stellar sample to investigate this gradient and found that it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Gaohuan Long , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Chun Wang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang

We adopt a scenario in which the Galactic thick disk was formed by minor merging between the first generation of the Galactic thin disk (FGTD) and a dwarf galaxy about 9 Gyr ago and thereby investigate chemical and dynamical properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

We analyze high quality abundances data of solar neighborhood stars and show that there are two distinct regimes of [alpha/Fe] versus age which we identify as the epochs of the thick and thin disk formation. A tight correlation between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Haywood , P. Di Matteo , M. Lehnert , D. Katz , A. Gomez

We analyze the relations between the relative magnesium abundances in stars and their metallicities, Galactic orbital elements, and ages. The relative magnesium abundances in metal-poor ([Fe/H] < -0.4) thin-disk stars have been found to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A Marsakov , T. V. Borkova

The emergence of the disc in our Galaxy and the relation of the thick and thin disc formation and evolution is still a matter of debate. The chemo-dynamical characterization of disc stars is key to resolve this question, in particular at…

The metallicity gradients of the stellar populations in disc galaxies and their evolution store relevant information on the disc formation history and on those processes which could mix stars a posteriori, such as migration, bars and/or…

The abundances of iron and oxygen are homogeneously determined in a sample of 523 nearby (d<150 pc) FGK disk and halo stars with metallicities in the range -1.5<[Fe/H]<0.5. The oxygen abundances were inferred from a restricted non-LTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Ramirez , C. Allende Prieto , D. L. Lambert

Based on SDSS DR8, we have selected a sample of 1728 red horizontal branch stars with |Z|<3 kpc by using a color-metallicity relation and stellar parameters. The sample stars clearly trace a typical thick disk population with peaks at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. Q. Chen , G. Zhao , K. Carrell , J. K. Zhao

We model gas phase metallicity radial profiles of galaxies in the local Universe by building on the `bathtub' chemical evolution formalism - where a galaxy's gas content is determined by the interplay between inflow, star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 F. Belfiore , F. Vincenzo , R. Maiolino , F. Matteucci

We investigate radial metallicity gradients for a sample of dwarf stars from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) Data Release 3 (DR3). We select a total of approximately 17000 F-type and G-type dwarfs using selection of colour, log g, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 B. Coskunoglu , S. Ak , S. Bilir , S. Karaali , O. Onal , E. Yaz , G. Gilmore , G. M. Seabroke

We analyse a set of very metal-poor stars for which accurate chemical abundances have been obtained as part of the ESO Large Program "First stars" in the light of the Gaia DR2 data. The kinematics and orbital properties of the stars in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 P. Di Matteo , M. Spite , M. Haywood , P. Bonifacio , A. Gómez , F. Spite , E. Caffau

We have investigated the metallicity distributions of mono-age stellar populations across the disc of $6 \lesssim R \lesssim 12$\,kpc and $|Z| \lesssim 2$\,kpc using samples selected from the main-sequence turn-off and sub-giant (MSTO-SG)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 C. Wang , X. -W. Liu , M. -S. Xiang , Y. Huang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , J. -J. Ren , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian

We present the first results of a study where we determine the metallicity distribution function in the Galactic disks as a function of height above the Galactic plane. Observations in the Stromgren photometric system enables us to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-11 Anna S. Arnadottir , Sofia Feltzing , Ingemar Lundstrom

We analyze radial stellar metallicity and kinematic profiles out to 1Re in 244 CALIFA galaxies ranging from morphological type E to Sd, to study the evolutionary mechanisms of stellar population gradients. We find that linear metallicity…