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The velocity dispersions of stars near the Sun are known to increase with stellar age, but age can be difficult to determine so a proxy like the abundance of alpha elements (e.g., Mg) with respect to iron, [alpha/Fe], is used. Here we…

The age-metallicity relation of the solar neighbourhood is studied using a sample of 552 late-type dwarfs. This sample was built from the intersection of photometric catalogues with chromospheric activity surveys of the Mount Wilson group.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Rocha-Pinto , W. J. Maciel , John Scalo , Chris Flynn

In this study we address whether the age--metallicity relation (AMR) deviates from the expected trend of metallicity increasing smoothly with age. We also show the presence (or absence) of two populations, as recently claimed using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-06 Anastasiia Plotnikova , Lorenzo Spina , Bridget Ratcliffe , Giada Casali , Giovanni Carraro

Understanding the history and the evolution of the Milky Way disc is one of the main goals of modern astrophysics. We study the velocity dispersion behaviour of Galactic disc stars as a function of the [Mg/Fe] ratio, which can be used as a…

Using data from the GALAH survey, we explore the dependence of elemental abundances on stellar age and metallicity among Galactic disc stars. We find that the abundance of most elements can be predicted from age and [Fe/H] with an intrinsic…

In the last years, stellar migration in galactic discs has been the subject of several investigations. However, its impact on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way still needs to be fully quantified. In this paper, we aim at imposing some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Spitoni , D. Romano , F. Matteucci , L. Ciotti

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

The main goal of Galactic Archaeology is understanding the formation and evolution of the basic Galactic components. This requires sophisticated chemo-dynamical modeling, where disc asymmetries (e.g., perturbations from the central bar,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 I. Minchev , C. Chiappini , M. Martig

The age-metallicity relation is fundamental to study the formation and evolution of the disk. Observations have shown that this relation has a large scatter which can not be explained by observational errors only. That scatter is hence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Paula Jofre

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

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 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

The analysis of the kinematics of solar neighbourhood stars shows that the low and high metallicity tails of the thin disc are populated by objects which orbital properties suggest an origin in the outer and inner galactic disc,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Misha Haywood

In the Milky Way, the distribution of stars in the $[\alpha/\mathrm{Fe}]$ vs. $[\mathrm{Fe/H}]$ and $[\mathrm{Fe/H}]$ vs. age planes holds essential information about the history of star formation, accretion, and dynamical evolution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Aarya A. Patil , Jo Bovy , Sebastian Jaimungal , Neige Frankel , Henry W. Leung

We study the structure, age and metallicity gradients, and dynamical evolution using a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-mass galaxy from the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. In the simulation, stars older than 6 Gyr…

In order to understand the roles of metal flows in galaxy formation and evolution, we analyse our self-consistent cosmological chemo-dynamical simulation of a Milky Way like galaxy during its thin-disc phase. Our simulated galaxy disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Chiaki Kobayashi

The vertical metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk offers valuable insights into the disk's formation and chemical evolution over time. We utilized the LAMOST-LRS young stellar sample to investigate this gradient and found that it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Gaohuan Long , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Chun Wang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang

Hierarchical star formation leads to a progressive decrease in the clustering of star clusters both in terms of spatial scale and age. Consistently, the statistical analysis of positions and ages of clusters in the Milky Way disk strongly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-22 R. de la Fuente Marcos , C. de la Fuente Marcos

Trends in the enrichment of elements with stellar ages are a powerful avenue to identify unexplained origins of the elements. We investigate the stellar abundance trends of low to intermediate-mass stars using the GALAH DR3 high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-15 Evans K. Owusu , Sven Buder , Ashley J. Ruiter , Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Nicolás Rodríguez-Segovia

[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