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The chemical dichotomy in the [$\alpha$/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane is a consequence of the complex processes underlying the formation and evolution of disc galaxies such as observed in the stellar Milky Way disc. We determine what can drive an…

The stellar disk of the Milky Way shows complex spatial and abundance structure that is central to understanding the key physical mechanisms responsible for shaping our Galaxy. In this study, we use six very high resolution cosmological…

Context. The [Mg/Fe] abundance ratios are a fundamental fossil signature to trace the chemical evolution of the disc. Despite of the huge observational and theoretical effort, discrepancies between models and data are still present and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Marco Palla , Pablo Santos-Peral , Alejandra Recio-Blanco , Francesca Matteucci

We investigate the chemo-kinematic properties of the Milky Way disc by exploring the first year of data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and compare our results to smaller optical high-resolution…

We aim to quantify the chemical and kinematical properties of the Galactic disks with a sample of 119,558 giant stars having abundances and 3D velocities taken or derived from the APOGEE DR17 and Gaia EDR3 catalogs. The Gaussian Mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Guozhen Hu , Zhengyi Shao

Using a sample of red giant stars from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Data Release 16, we infer the conditional distribution $p([\alpha/\text{Fe}]\,|\,[\text{Fe/H}])$ in the Milky Way disk for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , David H. Weinberg , Andrea Miglio , Richard R. Lane , Alexandre Roman-Lopes

The detailed age-chemical abundance relations of stars measures time-dependent chemical evolution.These trends offer strong empirical constraints on nucleosynthetic processes, as well as the homogeneityof star-forming gas. Characterizing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-23 Yuxi , Lu , Melissa Ness , Tobias Buck , Joel Zinn

Recent observations of the Milky Way and galaxies at high redshifts suggest that galaxy discs were already in place soon after the Big Bang. While the gas infall history of the Milky Way in the inner disc has long been assumed to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Owain Snaith , Misha Haywood , Paola Di Matteo , Matthew Lehnert , David Katz , Sergey Khoperskov

We obtain two-infall galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models simulating the chemical evolution of the Milky Way as constrained by a golden sample of $394,000$ stellar abundances of the Milky Way Mapper survey from the 19th data release of…

We investigate the properties of the double sequences of the Milky Way discs visible in the [$\alpha$/Fe] vs [Fe/H] diagram. In the framework of Galactic formation and evolution, we discuss the complex relationships between age,…

The galaxy formation process in the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter scenario can be constrained from the analysis of stars in the Milky Way's halo system. We examine the variation of chemical abundances in distant halo stars observed by the…

Due to its proximity, the stellar populations of the Galactic bulge (GB) can be resolved and can be studied in detail. This allows tracing the bulge metallicity distribution function (MDF) for different spatial regions within the bulge,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Oscar Cavichia , Mercedes Mollá , Juanjo J. Bazán

We present a multi-zone galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model for the Milky Way that takes the most recently updated yields of major nucleosynthesis channels into account. It incorporates physical processes commonly found in previous GCE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Boquan Chen , Michael R. Hayden , Sanjib Sharma , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Chiaki Kobayashi , Amanda I. Karakas

We present new maps of the Milky Way disk showing the distribution of metallicity ([Fe/H]), $\alpha$-element abundances ([Mg/Fe]), and stellar age, using a sample of 66,496 red giant stars from the final data release (DR17) of the Apache…

The metallicity distribution function (MDF) of the Galactic bulge features a multi-peak shape, with a metal-poor peak at [Fe/H]=-0.3 dex and a metal-rich peak at [Fe/H]=+0.3 dex. This bimodality is also seen in [alpha/Fe] versus [Fe/H]…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-22 M. Molero , F. Matteucci , E. Spitoni , A. Rojas-Arriagada , R. M. Rich

Context. The presence of [$\alpha$/Fe]-[Fe/H] bi-modality in the Milky Way disc has animated the Galactic archaeology community since more than two decades. Aims. Our goal is to investigate the chemical, temporal, and kinematical structure…

The spatial distribution of mono-abundance populations (MAPs, selected in [Fe/H] and [Mg/Fe]) reflect the chemical and structural evolution in a galaxy and impose strong constraints on galaxy formation models. In this paper, we use APOGEE…

We used the spectroscopic and astrometric data provided from the GALAH DR2 and Gaia DR2, respectively, for a large sample of stars to investigate the behaviour of the [$\alpha$/Fe] abundances via two procedures, i.e. kinematically and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-13 S. Karaali , S. Bilir , E. Yaz Gokce , O. Plevne

In this paper we present a new chemical evolution model for the Galaxy which assumes two main infall episodes for the formation of halo-thick disk and thin disk, respectively. We do not try to take into account explicitly the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Chiappini , F. Matteucci , R. Gratton

The best way to trace back the history of star formation and mass assembly of the Milky Way disc is by combining chemical compositions, ages and phase-space information for a large number of disc stars. With the advent of large surveys of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 J. Ted Mackereth , Jo Bovy , Ricardo P. Schiavon , SDSS-IV/APOGEE Collaboration