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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

We study the detailed properties of the radial metallicity gradient in the stellar disk of our Galaxy to constrain its chemical and structural evolution. For this purpose we select and analyze $\sim$ 18,500 disk stars taken from two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Daisuke Toyouchi , Masashi Chiba

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

{We present the radial metallicity gradients within the Galactic thin disc population through main-sequence stars selected on the chemical plane using GALAH DR3 accompanied with Gaia DR3 astrometric data. The [Fe/H], [$\alpha$/Fe] and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-22 F. Akbaba , T. Ak , S. Bilir , O. Plevne , Onal Tas. O , G. M. Seabroke

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 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

We analyze the radial and vertical metallicity and [alpha/Fe] gradients of the disk stars of a disk galaxy simulated in a fully cosmological setting with the chemodynamical galaxy evolution code, GCD+. We study how the radial abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Awat Rahimi , Kenneth Carrell , Daisuke Kawata

We study the metallicity distribution and evolution in the Galactic disk based on the largest sample of open star clusters in the Galaxy. From the catalogue of 1879 open clusters in the range of Galactocentric distance (R_GC) from 4 to 20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-29 Yogesh C. Joshi , Deepak , Sagar Malhotra

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

We determined the chemical and kinematic properties of the Galactic thin and thick disk using a sample of 307,246 A/F/G/K-type giant stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and Gaia DR2 survey. Our study found that the thick disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Yepeng Yan , Cuihua Du , Shuai Liu , Hefan Li , Jianrong Shi , Yuqin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhenyu Wu

Radial O/H abundance gradients derived from HII regions, hot stars and planetary nebulae are combined with [Fe/H] gradients from open cluster stars in order to derive an independent [O/Fe] x [Fe/H] relation for the galactic disk. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. Maciel

The stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients from the fiducial late-type galaxy simulation of Stinson et al. (2010) are presented. Over 1-3 scalelengths, gradients are shown to flatten with time, consistent with empirical evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-15 K. Pilkington , B. K. Gibson

The early stages of a galaxy's evolution leave an imprint on its metallicity distribution. We discuss the origins and evolution of radial metallicity gradients in discs of spiral galaxies using an analytical chemical evolution model. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-06 Ralph Schönrich , Paul McMillan

The formation and evolution of galaxies is imprinted on their stellar population radial gradients. Two recent articles present conflicting results concerning the mass dependence of the metallicity gradients for early-type dwarf galaxies. On…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Koleva , Ph. Prugniel , S. De Rijcke , W. W. Zeilinger , D. Michielsen

Using N-body simulations of the Galactic disks, we qualitatively study how the metallicity distributions of the thick and thin disk stars are modified by radial mixing induced by the bar and spiral arms. We show that radial mixing drives a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Daisuke Kawata

The space velocities and Galactic orbital elements of stars calculated from the currently available high-accuracy observations in our summary catalog of spectroscopic magnesium abundances in dwarfs and subgiants in the solar neighborhood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. A. Marsakov , T. V. Borkova

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…

In this letter we examine the evolution of the radial metallicity gradient induced by secular processes, in the disk of an $N$-body Milky Way-like galaxy. We assign a [Fe/H] value to each particle of the simulation according to an initial,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Curir , A. L. Serra , A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , P. Re Fiorentin , A. Diaferio

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

Radial migration is an important process in the evolution of the Galactic disk. The metallicity gradient of open clusters and its outliers provide an effective way to probe for this process. In this work, we compile metallicity, age, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Haopeng Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao
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