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We construct a model for the Milky Way Galaxy composed of a stellar disc and bulge embedded in a dark-matter halo. All components are modelled as $N$-body systems with up to 8 billion equal-mass particles and integrated up to an age of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Michiko S. Fujii , Jeroen Bédorf , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart

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

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

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 present mass models of the Milky Way created to fit observational constraints and to be consistent with expectations from theoretical modelling. The method used to create these models is that demonstrated in McMillan (2011), and we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Paul J. McMillan

The stellar disc is the dominant luminous component of the Milky Way (MW). Although our understanding of its structure is rapidly expanding due to advances in large-scale stellar surveys, our picture of the MW disc remains substantially…

We attempt to determine the relative fraction of stars that have undergone significant radial migration by studying the orbital properties of metal-rich ([Fe/H]$>0.1$) stars within 2 kpc of the Sun using a sample of more than 3,000 stars…

We report astrophysical properties of 12 Milky Way open clusters located beyond the circle around the Sun where the number of catalogued open clusters is thought to be statistically complete. By using deep optical photometry, we estimated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Andrés E. Piatti , Mateus S. Angelo , Wilton S. Dias

In this paper, we investigate some chemokinematical properties of the Milky Way disk, by using a sample composed by 424 late-type dwarfs. We show that the velocity dispersion of a stellar group correlates with the age of this group,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. Rocha-Pinto , C. Flynn , J. Scalo , J. Hanninen , W. J. Maciel , G. Hensler

The star formation rate history of the Milky Way is derived using the chromospheric age distribution for 552 stars in the solar neighborhood. The stars sample birthsites distributed over a very large range of distances because of orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , John Scalo , Walter Maciel , Chris Flynn

[Abridged] Ensemble studies of red-giant stars with exquisite asteroseismic, spectroscopic, and astrometric constraints offer a novel opportunity to recast and address long-standing questions concerning the evolution of stars and of the…

Studying the Milky Way disk structure using stars in narrow bins of [Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe] has recently been proposed as a powerful method to understand the Galactic thick and thin disk formation. It has been assumed so far that these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 I. Minchev , M. Steinmetz , C. Chiappini , M. Martig , F. Anders , G. Matijevic , R. S. de Jong

The evolution of the Milky Way disk, which contains most of the stars in the Galaxy, is affected by several phenomena. For example, the bar and the spiral arms of the Milky Way induce radial migration of stars and can trap or scatter stars…

Massive satellite accretions onto early galactic disks can lead to the deposition of dark matter in disk-like configurations that co-rotate with the galaxy. This phenomenon has potentially dramatic consequences for dark matter detection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Chris W. Purcell , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat

We investigate the formation history of the stellar disk component in the Milky Way (MW) based on our new chemical evolution model. Our model considers several fundamental baryonic processes, including gas infall, re-accretion of outflowing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Daisuke Toyouchi , Masashi Chiba

We present a detailed analysis of kinematics of the Milky Way disk in solar neighborhood using GAIA DR3 catalog. To determine the local kinematics of the stellar disks of the Milky Way galaxy we use a complete sample of 278,228 red giant…

We develop a hybrid model of galactic chemical evolution that combines a multi-ring computation of chemical enrichment with a prescription for stellar migration and the vertical distribution of stellar populations informed by a cosmological…

The signatures of the formation and evolution of a galaxy are imprinted in its stars. Their velocities, ages, and chemical compositions present major constraints on models of galaxy formation, and on various processes such as the gas…

With the calculated guiding center radius $R_{guiding}$ and birth radius $R_{birth}$, we investigate the role of radial migration on the description of lithium evolution in the Galactic disk based on the upper envelope of the A(Li) vs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-13 Haopeng Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Xianfei Zhang , Xiangxiang Xue

We determine the rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way in the range 6 < R < 18 kpc using a sample of 903 carefully selected classical Cepheids with precise proper motions and high-quality radial velocities from \emph{Gaia} DR3. Their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Qikang Feng , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang , Jifeng Liu
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