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The element abundances of Milky Way disc stars encode entangled imprints of multiple enrichment processes, making it difficult to uncover the underlying chemical evolution. Here we re-project 16 stellar abundances for 199,290 red giant…

We present a statistical method to derive the stellar density profiles of the Milky Way from spectroscopic survey data, taking into account selection effects. We assume that the selection function of the spectroscopic survey is based on…

Canonical theory predicts galaxies grow "inside-out", producing their observed negative radial age gradient. This picture is challenged by galaxies' `U-shaped' colour profiles -- indicating reversed age gradient -- explained by either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Jianhui Lian , Qinhao Shao , Yuze Zhao

We study the shape of the thick disc using photometric data at high and intermediate latitudes from SDSS and 2MASS surveys. We use the population synthesis approach using an ABC-MCMC method to characterize the thick disc shape, scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-10 A. C. Robin , C. Reyle , J. Fliri , M. Czekaj , C. P. Robert , A. M. M. Martins

ALMA has revealed that the millimetre dust structures of protoplanetary discs are extremely diverse. It has been proposed that the strength of H$_2$O emission in the inner disc particularly depends on the influx of icy pebbles from the…

We present the results of a wide-field camera survey of the stars in the Monoceros Ring, thought to be an additional structure in the Milky Way of unknown origin. Lying roughly in the plane of the Milky Way, this may represent a unique…

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 present analysis of the spatial density structure for the outer disk from 8$-$14 \,kpc with the LAMOST DR5 13534 OB-type stars and observe similar flaring on north and south sides of the disk implying that the flaring structure is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-01 Yang Yu , Hai-Feng Wang , Wen-Yuan Cui , Lin-Lin Li , Chao Liu , Bo Zhang , Hao Tian , Zhen-Yan Huo , Jie Ju , Zhi-Cun Liu , Fang Wen , Shuai Feng

The analysis of the kinematics of solar neighbourhood stars shows that the low and high metallicity tails of the thin disc are populated by objects which orbital properties suggest an origin in the outer and inner galactic disc,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Misha Haywood

Interstellar dust plays a central role in the evolution of galaxies by shaping star formation, altering observed stellar properties, and redistributing radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. In the Milky Way, dust is concentrated in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-19 H. -L. Guo , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , X. -W. Liu

We have pursued two different methods to analyze the old stellar population near the Galactic plane, using data from the 2MASS survey. The first method is based on the isolation of the red clump giant population in the color-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lopez-Corredoira , A. Cabrera-Lavers , F. Garzon , P. L. Hammersley

We estimated the galactic model parameters for a set of 20 intermediate-latitude fields with galactic longitudes 0<l<100 and 160<l<240, included in the currently available Data Release 6 (DR6) of SDSS, to explore their possible variation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Yaz , S. Karaali

We study the distribution of nearby thick disc and halo stars in subspaces defined by their characteristic orbital parameters. Our aim is to establish the origin of the structure reported in particular, in the $R_{\rm max}-z_{\rm max}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Helmer H. Koppelman , Jorrit H. J. Hagen , Amina Helmi

Aims. Using a suite of cosmological chemodynamical disc galaxy simulations, we assess how (a) radial metallicity gradients evolve with scaleheight; (b) the vertical metallicity gradients change through the thick disc; and (c) the vertical…

The properties and star formation processes in the far-outer disks of nearby spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies are reviewed. The origin and structure of the generally exponential profiles in stellar disks is considered to result from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter

The exponential profile has long been hypothesized as the fundamental morphology of galactic disks. The IllustrisTNG simulations reproduce diverse surface-density profiles: Type I (single exponential), Type II (down-bending), and Type III…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Liufei Chen , Min Du , Shuai Lu , Jing Li , Luis C. Ho

Ever since a thick disk was proposed to explain the vertical distribution of the Milky Way disk stars, its origin has been a recurrent question. We aim to answer this question by inspecting 19 disk galaxies with stellar mass greater than…

The stellar asymmetry of faint thick disk/inner halo stars in the first quadrant first reported by Larsen & Humphreys (1996) and investigated further by Parker et al. (2003, 2004) has been recently confirmed by SDSS (Juric et al. 2008).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey A. Larsen , Roberta M. Humphreys , Juan E. Cabanela

We study the self-consistent, linear response of a galactic disc to non-axisymmetric perturbations in the vertical direction as due to a tidal encounter, and show that the density distribution near the disc mid-plane has a strong impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Pratyush Pranav , Chanda J. Jog
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