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The comparison of chemical abundances in the neutral gas of galaxies to photospheric abundances of old and young stars, ionized gas abundances, and abundances in galactic halos can trace the chemical enrichment of the universe through…

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

The chemical composition of a star's atmosphere reflects the chemical composition of its birth environment. Therefore, it should be feasible to recognize stars born together that have scattered throughout the galaxy, solely based on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-21 Theosamuele Signor , Paula Jofré , Luis Martí , Nayat Sánchez-Pi

Age is one of the most fundamental parameters of stars, yet it is one of the hardest to determine as it requires modelling various aspects of stellar formation and evolution. When we compare the ages derived from isochronal and dynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Núria Miret Roig , João Alves , David Barrado , Andreas Burkert , Sebastian Ratzenböck , Ralf Konietzka

We address the question how accurately stellar ages can be determined by stellar evolution theory. We select the star with the best observational material available - our Sun. We determine the solar age by fitting solar evolution models to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Achim Weiss , Helmut Schlattl

We present updated stellar population models appropriate for old ages (>1 Gyr) and covering a wide range in metallicities (-1.5<[Fe/H]<0.3). These models predict the full spectral variation associated with individual element abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Charlie Conroy , Alexa Villaume , Pieter van Dokkum , Karin Lind

Recent improvements in the age dating of stellar populations and single stars allow us to study the ages and abundance of stars and galaxies with unprecedented accuracy. We here compare the relation between age and \alpha-element abundances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 C. J. Walcher , R. M. Yates , I. Minchev , C. Chiappini , M. Bergemann , G. Bruzual , S. Charlot , P. R. T. Coelho , A. Gallazzi , M. Martig

Context. The third Gaia Data Release, which includes BP/RP spectra for 219 million sources, has opened a new window in the exploration of the chemical history and evolution of the Milky Way. The wealth of information encapsulated in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 T. Xylakis-Dornbusch , N. Christlieb , T. T. Hansen , T. Nordlander , K. B. Webber , J. Marshall

The physical processes driving chemical evolution in the Milky Way can be probed using the distribution of abundances in low-mass FGK type stars in space phase at different times. During their final stages of evolution stars experience…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Paula Jofre , Holly Jackson , Marcelo Tucci Maia

Stellar ages are extremely difficult to determine and often subject to large uncertainties, especially for field low-mass stars. We plan to carry out a calibration of the decrease in high-energy emissions of low-mass GKM stars with time,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Garcés , S. Catalán , I. Ribas

Knowledge of ages for stars formed over a galaxy's lifetime is fundamental to understand its formation and evolution. However, stellar ages are difficult to obtain since they cannot be measured from observations, being comparison with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-30 Carme Gallart , Edouard J. Bernard , Chris B. Brook , Tomas Ruiz-Lara , Santi Cassisi , Vanessa Hill , Matteo Monelli

Age determination is undertaken for nearby early-type (BAF) stars, which constitute attractive targets for high-contrast debris disk and planet imaging surveys. Our analysis sequence consists of: acquisition of uvby{\beta} photometry from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Trevor J. David , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

The ages of star clusters and co-moving stellar groups contain essential information about the Milky Way. Their special properties make them excellent tracers of galactic structure and key components to unlocking its star formation history.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Alena Rottensteiner , Stefan Meingast

Obtaining accurate and precise masses and ages for large numbers of giant stars is of great importance for unraveling the assemblage history of the Galaxy. In this paper, we estimate masses and ages of 6940 red giant branch (RGB) stars with…

Stellar parameters for large samples of stars play a crucial role in constraining the nature of stars and stellar populations in the Galaxy. An increasing number of medium-band photometric surveys are presently used in estimating stellar…

The distribution of young stars into OB associations has long been in need of updating. High-precision {\sl Gaia} early Data Release 3 astrometry, coupled with modern machine-learning methods, allows this to be done. We have compiled a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Alexander A. Chemel , Richard de Grijs , Elena V. Glushkova , Andrey K. Dambis

There has been an incredibly large investment in obtaining high-resolution stellar spectra for determining chemical abundances of stars. This information is crucial to answer fundamental questions in Astronomy by constraining the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Paula Jofré , Ulrike Heiter , Caroline Soubiran

The archaeological record of stars in the Milky Way opens a uniquely detailed window into the early formation and assembly of galaxies. Here we use 11,000 main-sequence turn-off stars with well-measured ages, [Fe/H], [$\alpha$/Fe], and…

We present a catalog of ~100,000 periodic variable stars in TESS FFI data among members of widely distributed moving groups identified with Gaia in the previous papers in the series. By combining the periods from our catalog attributable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Luke G. Bouma , Kevin Covey , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jason Lee Curtis

$Context$. Gaia Second Data Release provides precise astrometry and photometry for more than 1.3 billion sources. This catalog opens a new era concerning the characterization of open clusters and test stellar models, paving the way for a…