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JWST has recently detected numerous disc galaxies at high-redshifts and there have been observations of cold disc galaxies at z > 4 with ALMA. In the Milky Way, recent studies find metal-poor stars in cold disc orbits, suggesting an ancient…

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

We present a comprehensive chemical and age orbital cartography of the Galactic high-$\alpha$ disc using subgiant stars with precise ages, element abundances, and full phase-space information from the \textsl{LAMOST--Gaia} data set.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Furkan Akbaba , Danny Horta , Olcay Plevne

We investigate the metallicity, age, and orbital anatomy of the inner Milky Way, specifically focussing on the outer bar region. We integrated a sample of APOGEE DR16 inner Galaxy stars in a state of the art bar-bulge potential with a slow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-16 Shola M. Wylie , Jonathan P. Clarke , Ortwin E. Gerhard

Age-metallicity relation for the Galactic disc is a crucial tool and to constrain the Galactic chemical evolution models. We investigate the age-metallicity relation of the Galactic disc using the red giant branch stars in the Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-01 S. Doner , S. Ak , O. Onal Tas , O. Plevne

Phase-space data, chemistry, and ages together reveal a complex structure in the outer low-${\alpha}$ disc of the Milky Way. The age-vertical velocity dispersion profiles beyond the Solar Neighbourhood show a significant jump at 6 Gyr for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-15 Payel Das , Yang Huang , Ioana Ciuca , Francesca Fragkoudi

We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg-Mn-Al-Fe plane with elemental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Sofia Feltzing , Diane Feuillet

Using a sample of red giant stars from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Data Release 16, we infer the conditional distribution $p([\alpha/\text{Fe}]\,|\,[\text{Fe/H}])$ in the Milky Way disk for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , David H. Weinberg , Andrea Miglio , Richard R. Lane , Alexandre Roman-Lopes

Vertically extended, high velocity dispersion stellar distributions appear to be a ubiquitous feature of disc galaxies, and both internal and external mechanisms have been proposed to be the major driver of their formation. However, it is…

Using nearly 230,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and Gaia, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the stellar age-velocity dispersion relations (AVRs) for various disk populations, within 5.0 $\leq$ $R$ $\leq$ 15.0 kpc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-07 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Biwei Jiang , Xiaowei Liu

We perform analysis of the three-dimensional kinematics of Milky Way disk stars in mono-age populations. We focus on stars between Galactocentric distances of $R=6$ and 14 \,kpc, selected from the combined LAMOST DR4 red clump giant stars…

[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

We construct a dynamical model of the Milky Way disk from a data set, which combines Gaia EDR3 and APOGEE data throughout Galactocentric radii between $5.0\leq R\leq19.5$ kpc. We make use of the spherically-aligned Jeans Anisotropic Method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Maria Selina Nitschai , Anna-Christina Eilers , Nadine Neumayer , Michele Cappellari , Hans-Walter Rix

The stellar velocity distribution function (DF) in the solar vicinity is re-examined using data from the SDSS APOGEE survey's DR16 and \emph{Gaia} DR2. By exploiting APOGEE's ability to chemically discriminate with great reliability the…

We present a first large-scale kinematic map of $\sim$50,000 young OB stars ($T_{\rm eff} \geq 10,000$ K), based on BOSS spectroscopy from the Milky Way Mapper OB program in the ongoing Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V). Using…

We use the extensive $Gaia$ Data Release 2 set of Long Period Variables to select a sample of Oxygen-rich Miras throughout the Milky Way disk and bulge for study. Exploiting the relation between Mira pulsation period and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 J. Grady , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

The outskirts of the Milky Way disc have been known to be warped since the late 1950s. Although various stellar populations have shown an underlying warped distribution, the relation between the age of the population and the warp they trace…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Mauro Cabrera-Gadea , Cecilia Mateu , Pau Ramos

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…

We explore the structure of the element abundance--age--orbit distribution of the stars in the Milky Way's low-$\alpha$ disk, by (re-)deriving precise [Fe/H], [X/Fe] and ages, along with orbits, for red clump stars from the APOGEE survey.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Melissa K. Ness , Kathryn V. Johnston , Kirsten Blancato , Hans-Walter Rix , Angus Beane , Jonathan C. Bird , Keith Hawkins

Within disk galaxies, the velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, of stars increases with age, $\tau$, as measured in the Milky Way (MW) and nearby galaxies. This relation provides a key window into galactic formation history, tracing both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-16 Fiona McCluskey , Andrew Wetzel , Sarah Loebman , Jorge Moreno