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Large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way have revealed that a small population of stars in the halo have light element abundances comparable to those found in globular clusters. The favoured explanation for the peculiar abundances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 A. Savino , L. Posti

Very metal-poor stars contain crucial information on the Milky Way's infancy. In our previous study \citep{Plotnikova_2022} we derived a mean age of $\sim$ 13.7 Gyr for a sample of these stars in the Sun's vicinity. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Anastasiia Plotnikova , Giovanni Carraro , Sandro Villanova , Sergio Ortolani

Context. Stellar clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are useful probes for studying the chemical and dynamical evolution of this neighbouring dwarf galaxy, enabling inspection of a large period covering over 10 Gyr. Aims: The main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 Bruno Dias , Leandro Kerber , Beatriz Barbuy , Basilio Santiago , Sergio Ortolani , Eduardo Balbinot

We study how structural properties of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies are linked to their orbits in the Milky Way halo. From the inner to the outer halo, orbital energy increases and stellar-systems gradually move out of internal…

Context: Star clusters, composed of stars born from the same molecular cloud, serve as invaluable natural laboratories for understanding the fundamental processes governing stellar formation and evolution. Aims: This study aims to…

Luminosities and tidal radii of globular clusters have been used to estimate the perigalactic distances P of well-observed Galactic globulars that do not have collapsed cores. It is found that the cluster metallicity [Fe/H] correlates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sidney van den Bergh

Open clusters are a useful tool when investigating several topics connected with stellar evolution; for example the age or distance can be more accurately determined than for field stars. However, one important parameter, the metallicity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen

The all-sky Milky Way Star Clusters (MWSC) survey provides uniform and precise ages and other parameters for a variety of clusters in the Solar Neighbourhood. We construct the cluster age distribution, investigate its spatial variations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. E. Piskunov , A. Just , N. V. Kharchenko , P. Berczik , R. -D. Scholz , S. Reffert , S. X. Yen

[Abridge] In the first paper of this series (paper I) we presented a new approach for studying the chemo-odynamical evolution in disk galaxies, focusing on the Milky Way. Here we extend these results to different distances from the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-03 Ivan Minchev , Cristina Chiappini , Marie Martig

The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star clusters at the sub-km/s level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters form and evolve. We use a sample of 28 clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael A. Kuhn , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Alison Sills , Eric D. Feigelson , Konstantin V. Getman

We analyse a set of very metal-poor stars for which accurate chemical abundances have been obtained as part of the ESO Large Program "First stars" in the light of the Gaia DR2 data. The kinematics and orbital properties of the stars in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 P. Di Matteo , M. Spite , M. Haywood , P. Bonifacio , A. Gómez , F. Spite , E. Caffau

NGC 4815 is a populous ~500 Myr open cluster at a Galactocentric radius of 7 kpc observed in the first six months of the Gaia-ESO Survey. Located in the inner Galactic disk, NGC 4815 is an important tracer of the abundance gradient, where…

We use the largest open clusters catalogue in the post-Gaia era to provide the observational view of the Galactic disk. By compiling the physical parameters like age, distance, and kinematic information, we investigate the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Yogesh C. Joshi , Sagar Malhotra

The metallicity structure of the Milky Way disk stems from the chemodynamical evolutionary history of the Galaxy. We use the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array to observe ~8-10 GHz hydrogen radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Trey V. Wenger , Dana S. Balser , L. D. Anderson , T. M. Bania

Context. Open clusters are groups of coeval stars sharing properties such as distance and metallicity, and they are key to understanding stellar evolution. Aims. Our main goal is to study the evolution of open clusters with a special focus…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 M. Žerjal , N. Lodieu , A. Pérez-Garrido , J. Olivares , V. J. S. Béjar , E. L. Martín

We conduct a quantitative analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of the Milky Way's bulge by exploiting the constraining power of its stellar [Fe/H] and [Mg/Fe] distribution functions. Using APOGEE data, we confirm the…

We estimate the fraction of F,G,K stars with close binary companions by analysing multi-epoch stellar spectra from SDSS and LAMOST for radial velocity (RV) variations. We employ a Bayesian method to infer the maximum likelihood of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Shuang Gao , Chao Liu , Xiaobin Zhang , Stephen Justham , Licai Deng , Ming Yang

We report the first star formation history study of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster (NSC) that includes observational constraints from a large sample of stellar metallicity measurements. These metallicity measurements were obtained…

We use the second Gaia data release in combination with the catalog of Sanders & Das (2018) to dissect the Milky Way disc in phase-space and relative ages. We confirm and report the existence of multiple velocity moving groups at low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Chervin F. P. Laporte , Benoit Famaey , Giacomo Monari , Vanessa Hill , Christopher Wegg , Ortwin Gerhard

We determined the age of the stellar content of the Galactic halo by considering main-sequence turn-off stars. From the large number of halo stars provided by Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we could accurately detect the turn-off as a function…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Paula Jofre , Achim Weiss