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We investigate radial and vertical metallicity gradients for a sample of red clump stars from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) Data Release 3. We select a total of 6781 stars, using a selection of colour, surface gravity and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Bilir , S. Karaali , S. Ak , O. Onal , N. D. Dagtekin , T. Yontan , G. Gilmore , G. M. Seabroke

We aim to probe the dynamic structure of the extended Solar neighbourhood by calculating the radial metallicity gradients from orbit properties, which are obtained for axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric potential models, of red clump (RC)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 O. Onal Tas , S. Bilir , O. Plevne

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 estimated iron and metallicity gradients in the radial and vertical directions with the F and G type dwarfs taken from the RAVE DR4 database. The sample defined by the constraints Zmax<=825 pc and ep<=0.10 consists of stars with metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 O. Plevne , T. Ak , S. Karaali , S. Bilir , S. Ak , Z. F. Bostanci

The observed radial and vertical metallicity distribution of old stars in the Milky Way disk provides a powerful constraint on the chemical enrichment and dynamical history of the disk. We present the radial metallicity gradient,…

We used the ugr magnitudes of 1,437,467 F-G type main-sequence stars with metal abundance -2<[Fe/H]<+0.2 dex and estimated radial and vertical metallicity gradients for high Galactic-latitude fields (b>50) of the Milky Way Galaxy. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 S. Tuncel Guctekin , S. Bilir , S. Karaali , O. Plevne , S. Ak

Using a sample of over 70, 000 red clump (RC) stars with $5$-$10$% distance accuracy selected from the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (LSS-GAC), we study the radial and vertical gradients of the Galactic disk(s)…

We examine the metallicity distribution of the Galactic thick disk using F, G, and K dwarf stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 8. Using the large sample of dwarf stars with proper motions and spectroscopically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-29 Kenneth Carrell , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao

Using a sample of 213,713 stars from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey, limited to a distance of 2 kpc from the Sun and to |z|<1 kpc, we report the detection of a velocity gradient of disc stars in the fourth quadrant, directed…

We provide new constraints on the chemo-dynamical models of the Milky Way by measuring the radial and vertical chemical gradients for the elements Mg, Al, Si, Ti, and Fe in the Galactic disc and the gradient variations as a function of the…

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

Using G dwarfs from the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) survey, we have determined a vertical metallicity gradient over a large volume of the Milky Way's disk, and examined how this gradient varies for…

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

Using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of 418 red-giant stars close to the Galactic disc plane (6 kpc $<R_{\rm Gal}\lesssim13$ kpc, $|Z_{\rm Gal}|<0.3$ kpc), we measure the age dependence of the radial metallicity…

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. We use the subsample of spectra with spectroscopically determined values of stellar parameters to determine the distances to these stars. The list currently…

This study is based on high quality astrometric and spectroscopic data from the most recent releases by Gaia and APOGEE. We select $58\,882$ thin and thick disk red giants, in the Galactocentric (cylindrical) distance range $5 < R < 13$~kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Paola Re Fiorentin , Mario G. Lattanzi , Alessandro Spagna

We performed a spectroscopic survey of nearly 700 stars probing the galactic thick disc far from the solar neighbourhood towards the galactic coordinates (l~277, b~47). The derived effective temperatures, surface gravities and overall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Kordopatis , A. Recio-Blanco , P. de Laverny , G. Gilmore , V. Hill , R. F. G. Wyse , A. Helmi , A. Bijaoui , M. Zoccali , O. Bienaymé

We present a sample of 254,882 luminous red giant branch (LRGB) stars selected from the APOGEE and LAMOST surveys. By combining photometric and astrometric information from the 2MASS and Gaia surveys, the precise distances of the sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuan Zhou , Xinyi Li , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang

We investigate the vertical metallicity gradients of five mono-age stellar populations between 0 and 11 Gyr for a sample of 18 435 dwarf stars selected from the cross-matched Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) and RAdial Velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-16 Ioana Ciucă , Daisuke Kawata , Jane Lin , Luca Casagrande , George Seabroke , Mark Cropper

The distribution of stellar abundances along the Galactic disk is an important constraint for models of chemical evolution and Galaxy formation. In this study we derive radial gradients of C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, as well as S, from abundance…

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