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We discuss the present state of knowledge and thought concerning the spread in age found among Galactic globular clusters, with some discussion of the implications for what happened during the earliest stages of the formation of the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Peter B. Stetson , Don A. VandenBerg , Michael Bolte

We have investigated the metallicity distributions of mono-age stellar populations across the disc of $6 \lesssim R \lesssim 12$\,kpc and $|Z| \lesssim 2$\,kpc using samples selected from the main-sequence turn-off and sub-giant (MSTO-SG)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 C. Wang , X. -W. Liu , M. -S. Xiang , Y. Huang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , J. -J. Ren , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian

Open clusters are unique tracers of the history of our own Galaxy's disk. According to our membership analysis based on \textit{Gaia} astrometry, out of the 226 potential clusters falling in the footprint of GALAH or APOGEE, we find that…

We present a sample of local red giant stars observed using the New Mexico State University 1 m telescope with the APOGEE spectrograph, for which we estimate stellar ages and the age distribution from the high-resolution spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Diane K Feuillet , Jo Bovy , Jon Holtzman , Leo Girardi , Nick MacDonald , Steven R Majewski , David L Nidever

Photospheric abundances are presented for 27 elements from carbon to europium in 181 F-G dwarfs from a differential LTE analysis of high-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra. Stellar $T_{\rm eff}$ were adopted from an infrared flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bacham E. Reddy , Jocelyn Tomkin , David L. Lambert , Carlos Allende Prieto

Chemical abundances are an essential tool in untangling the Milky Way's enrichment history. However, the evolution of the interstellar medium abundance gradient with cosmic time is lost as a result of radial mixing processes. For the first…

In the coming years, detailed chemical abundances from large-scale high-resolution spectroscopic surveys will become available for vast numbers of stars across the Milky Way. Previous work has suggested that abundance ratios from these…

The emergence of the disc in our Galaxy and the relation of the thick and thin disc formation and evolution is still a matter of debate. The chemo-dynamical characterization of disc stars is key to resolve this question, in particular at…

ABRIDGED: METHODS: We have conducted a high-resolution spectroscopic study of 714 F and G dwarf and subgiant stars in the Solar neighbourhood. The star sample has been kinematically selected to trace the Galactic thin and thick disks to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing , M. S. Oey

We study the ages of $\alpha$-rich and $\alpha$-poor stars in the halo using a sample of F and G dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To separate stars based on [$\alpha$/Fe], we have developed a new semi-empirical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Keith Hawkins , Paula Jofre , Gerry Gilmore , Thomas Masseron

The kinematics of the Milky Way disc as a function of age are well measured at the solar radius, but have not been studied over a wider range of Galactocentric radii. Here, we measure the kinematics of mono-age, mono-$\mathrm{[Fe/H]}$…

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 effects of the orbital diffusion of stars and clusters on the galactic abundance gradient have been modelled. For a single generation of field stars, the results confirm previous analyses based upon the assumption of a linear gradient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Stuartt Corder , Bruce A. Twarog

We analyze 494 main sequence turnoff and subgiant stars from the AMBRE:HARPS survey. These stars have accurate astrometric information from \textit{Gaia}/DR1, providing reliable age estimates with relative uncertainties of $\pm1-2$ Gyr and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-08 M. Hayden , A. Recio-Blanco , P. de Laverny , S. Mikolaitis , C. C. Worley

Stellar and supernova nucleosynthesis in the first few billion years of the cosmic history have set the scene for early structure formation in the Universe, while little is known about their nature. Making use of stellar physical parameters…

[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 present accurate relative ages for a sample of 55 Galactic globular clusters. The ages have been obtained by measuring the difference between the horizontal branch and the turnoff in two, internally photometrically homogeneous databases.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 F. De Angeli , G. Piotto , S. Cassisi , G. Busso , A. Recio-Blanco , M. Salaris , A. Aparicio , A. Rosenberg

We search for the existence of chemically-distinct stellar components in the solar neighbourhood using published data. Extending earlier work, we show that when the abundances of Fe, alpha elements, and the r-process element Eu are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Kim A. Venn , Kenneth C. Freeman , Borja Anguiano

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 explore how the star formation and metal enrichment histories of present-day galaxies have been affected by environment combining stellar population parameter estimates and group environment characterization for SDSS DR7. We compare…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Anna R. Gallazzi , Anna Pasquali , Stefano Zibetti , Francesco La Barbera