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Kinematic studies of disk galaxies, using individual stars in the Milky Way or statistical studies of global disk kinematics over time, provide insight into how disks form and evolve. We use a high-resolution, cosmological zoom-simulation…

We studied the relationship between the average stellar abundance of several elements and the orbital evolution of stars in the neighbourhood of the Sun, using both observational data for 325 late-type dwarfs in a volume-complete sample and…

We study the structure, age and metallicity gradients, and dynamical evolution using a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-mass galaxy from the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. In the simulation, stars older than 6 Gyr…

We analyse from an observational perspective the formation history and kinematics of a Milky Way-like galaxy from a high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulation that we compare to those of our Galaxy as seen by Gaia DR2 to better…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-05 M. Giammaria , A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , G. Murante , P. Re Fiorentin , M. Valentini

The evolution history of the Milky Way disk is imprinted in the ages, positions, and chemical compositions of individual stars. In this study, we derive the intrinsic density distribution of different stellar populations using the final…

Spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, transform at some point in time into a rotationally supported system. Using an extant data-set consisting of 319 835 sub-giants from LAMOST with precise ages from the literature, we determine, for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Sofia Feltzing , Diane Feuillet , Thomas Bensby

[Abridged] We map the stellar age distribution ($\lesssim 1$ Gyr) across a 6kpc$\,\times\,$6kpc area of the Galactic disc to constrain our Galaxy's recent star-formation history. Our modelling draws on the sample of Zari et al. (2021) that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 E. Zari , N. Frankel , H. -W. Rix

In the last few decades many efforts have been made to understand the effect of spiral arms on the gas and stellar dynamics in the Milky Way disc. One of the fundamental parameters of the spiral structure is its angular velocity, or pattern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-04 T. C. Junqueira , C. Chiappini , J. R. D. Lépine , I. Minchev , B. X. Santiago

[Abridged] In this first paper of this series, we present a new approach for studying the chemo-dynamical evolution in disk galaxies, which consists of fusing disk chemical evolution models with compatible numerical simulations of galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Minchev , C. Chiappini , M. Martig

We study the growth of stellar discs of Milky Way-sized galaxies using a suite of cosmological simulations. We calculate the half-mass axis lengths and axis ratios of stellar populations split by age in isolated galaxies with stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-16 Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin

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

The redistribution of stars in galactic disks is an important aspect of disk galaxy evolution. Stars that efficiently migrate in such a way that does not also appreciably heat their orbits can drastically affect the stellar populations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 R. Roškar , V. P. Debattista

In order to understand the roles of metal flows in galaxy formation and evolution, we analyse our self-consistent cosmological chemo-dynamical simulation of a Milky Way like galaxy during its thin-disc phase. Our simulated galaxy disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Chiaki Kobayashi

Stellar migration is an important dynamical process in Galactic disk. Here we model the radial stellar migration in the Galactic disk with an analytical method, then add it to detailed Galactic chemical evolution model to study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yue Wang , Gang Zhao

We study the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients as a function of time for the Milky Way Galaxy obtained with our {\sc Mulchem} chemical evolution model. We review the recent data of abundances for different objects observed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 M. Mollá , Á. I. Díaz , O. Cavichia , B. K. Gibson , W. J. Maciel , R. D. D. Costa , Y. Ascasibar , C. G. Few

The Milky Way is a unique laboratory, where stellar properties can be measured and analyzed in detail. In particular, stars in the older populations encode information on the mechanisms that led to the formation of our Galaxy. In this…

We use 297 042 main sequence turn-off stars selected from the LSS-GAC to determine the radial and vertical gradients of stellar metallicity of the Galactic disk in the anti-center direction. We determine ages of those turn-off stars by…

Recent observations show that the Milky Way's metallicity distribution function (MDF) changes its shape as a function of radius. This new evidence of radial migration within the stellar disc sets additional constraints on Galactic models.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 L. A. Martinez-Medina , B. Pichardo , E. Moreno , A. Peimbert

Context: With the data releases from the astrometric space mission Gaia, the exploration of the structure of the Milky Way has developed in unprecedented detail and unveiled many previously unknown structures in the Galactic disc and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-08 S. Alinder , P. J. McMillan , T. Bensby

We use accurate estimates of aluminium abundance provided as part of the APOGEE Data Release 17 and Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometry to select a highly pure sample of stars with metallicity $-1.5\lesssim {\rm [Fe/H]}\lesssim 0.5$ born…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Vasily Belokurov , Andrey Kravtsov