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The variation of metal production over time and its dilution in the interstellar medium depend on the star formation and gas accretion rates. Measuring age-chemistry relations across the Milky Way disk provides key constraints on the gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Valeria Cerqui , Misha Haywood , Owain Snaith , Paola Di Matteo , Laia Casamiquela

It has long been known that the vertical motions of Galactic disk stars increase with stellar age, commonly interpreted as vertical heating through orbit scattering. Here we map the vertical actions of disk stars as a function of age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuan-Sen Ting , Hans-Walter Rix

Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is imprinted in the current kinematics and age-metallicity…

In the Milky Way, the thick disk can be defined using individual stellar abundances, kinematics, or age; or geometrically, as stars high above the mid-plane. In nearby galaxies, where only a geometric definition can be used, thick disks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Marie Martig , Ivan Minchev , Melissa Ness , Morgan Fouesneau , Hans-Walter Rix

We calculate the ages, orbits and phase-space coordinates for a sample of $\sim$4 million LAMOST and Gaia stars. The ages are crossmatched and compared with values from two other popular age catalogs which derive the ages using different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 John J. Vickers , Juntai Shen , Zhao-Yu Li

We quantify the inside-out growth of the Milky Way's low-alpha stellar disk, modelling the ages, metallicities and Galactocentric radii of APOGEE red clump stars with 6 < R < 13 kpc. The current stellar distribution differs significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Neige Frankel , Jason Sanders , Hans-Walter Rix , Yuan-Sen Ting , Melissa Ness

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 investigate the kinematic parameters of the Milky Way disc using the RAVE and GCS stellar surveys. We do this by fitting a kinematic model to the data taking the selection function of the data into account. For stars in the GCS we use…

Over the last few years, many studies have found an empirical relationship between the abundance of a star and its age. Here we estimate spectroscopic stellar ages for 178 825 red-giant stars observed by the APOGEE survey with a median…

The age and chemical characteristics of the Galactic bulge link to the formation and evolutionary history of the Galaxy. Data-driven methods and large surveys enable stellar ages and precision chemical abundances to be determined for vast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-31 Tawny Sit , Melissa Ness

Observations of stars in the the solar vicinity show a clear tendency for old stars to have larger velocity dispersions. This relation is called the age-velocity dispersion relation (AVR) and it is believed to provide insight into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Jun Kumamoto , Junichi Baba , Takayuki R. Saitoh

We analyse the heating of stellar discs by non axisymmetric structures and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in N-body simulations of growing disc galaxies. The analysis resolves long-standing discrepancies between models and data by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-08 Michael Aumer , James Binney , Ralph Schönrich

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 study the kinematics of stars both at their formation and today within 14 Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies from the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We quantify the relative importance of cosmological disk settling and post-formation…

The stellar kinematics of the Galactic disk are main factors for constraining disk formation and evolution processes in the Milky Way (MW) Galaxy. In this paper we investigate a statistical relation between stellar Mass, Age and Velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Hossein Fatheddin , Sedighe Sajadian

The application of asymmetric drift (AD) tomography across different populations provides valuable insights into the kinematics, dynamics, and rotation curves of the Galactic disk. By leveraging common stars identified in both the LAMOST…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 Xin Li , Peng Yang , Hai-Feng Wang , Qing Li , Yang-Ping Luo , Zhi-Quan Luo , Guan-Yu Wang

Open Clusters (OCs) can trace with a great accuracy the evolution of the Galactic disk. The aim of this work is to study the kinematical behavior of the OC population over time. We take advantage of the latest age determinations of OCs to…

A star in the Milky Way's disk can now be at a Galactocentric radius quite distant from its birth radius for two reasons: either its orbit has become eccentric through radial heating, which increases its radial action $J_R$ (`blurring'); or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Neige Frankel , Jason Sanders , Yuan-Sen Ting , Hans-Walter Rix

Using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of 418 red-giant stars close to the Galactic disc plane (6 kpc $<R_{\rm Gal}\lesssim13$ kpc, $|Z_{\rm Gal}|<0.3$ kpc), we measure the age dependence of the radial metallicity…