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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…

Although there have been numerous studies of chemical abundances in the Galactic bulge, the central two degrees have been relatively unexplored due to the heavy and variable interstellar extinction, extreme stellar crowding, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Schultheis , R. M. Rich , L. Origlia , N. Ryde , G. Nandakumar , B. Thorsbro , N. Neumayer

Stars with higher aluminum and nitrogen enrichment are often the key pieces for the chemical makeup of multiple populations in almost all globular clusters (GCs). There is also compelling observational evidence that some Galactic components…

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 use 297 042 main sequence turn-off stars selected from the LSS-GAC to determine the radial and vertical gradients of stellar metallicity of the Galactic disk in the anti-center direction. We determine ages of those turn-off stars by…

We study the properties of the central spheroids located within 10 kpc of the centre of mass of Milky Way mass-sized galaxies simulated in a cosmological context. The simulated central regions are dominated by stars older than 10 Gyr,…

We illustrate the formation and evolution of the Milky Way over cosmic time, utilizing a sample of 10 million red giant stars with full chemodynamical information, including metallicities and $\alpha$-abundances from low-resolution Gaia XP…

We present a summary of our recent work on the vertical distribution of the resolved stellar populations in six low mass, edge-on, spiral galaxies observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS). In each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anil Seth , Julianne Dalcanton , Roelof de Jong

The Galactic Bulge, as the center of the Galaxy, is the closest laboratory for studying galaxy formation and evolution. However, its study faces significant challenges due to heavy dust extinction. This paper is devoted to deriving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Jialu Nie , Martín López-Corredoira , Chao Liu , Hai-feng Wang , Iulia Simion

We analyse the chemical properties of a set of solar vicinity stars, and show that the small dispersion in abundances of \alpha-elements at all ages provides evidence that the SFH has been uniform throughout the thick disk. In the context…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-13 M. Haywood , P. Di Matteo , O. Snaith , M. Lehnert

Previous studies based on the analysis of Gaia DR2 data have revealed that accreted stars, possibly originating from a single progenitor satellite, are a significant component of the halo of our Galaxy, potentially constituting most of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood , M. D. Lehnert , D. Katz , S. Khoperskov , O. N. Snaith , A. Gómez , N. Robichon

The spatial structure of stellar populations with different chemical abundances in the Milky Way contains a wealth of information on Galactic evolution over cosmic time. We use data on 14,699 red-clump stars from the APOGEE survey, covering…

We develop a Bayesian Machine Learning framework called BINGO (Bayesian INference for Galactic archaeOlogy) centred around a Bayesian neural network. After being trained on the APOGEE and \emph{Kepler} asteroseismic age data, BINGO is used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Ioana Ciucă , Daisuke Kawata , Andrea Miglio , Guy R. Davies , Robert J. J. Grand

We establish a framework for determing absolute ages of Galactic globular clusters and then use these ages to investigate the age-metallicity and age-Galactocentric distance relations for the 36 clusters with the most reliable age data. The…

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

We obtained stellar ages and metallicities via spectrum fitting for a sample of 575 bulges with spectra available from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The structural properties of the galaxies have been studied in detail in Gadotti (2009b)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paula Coelho , Dimitri A. Gadotti

Context. Understanding the Milky Way's formation and evolution across cosmic epochs necessitates precise stellar age determination across all Galactic components. Recent advancements in asteroseismology, spectroscopy, stellar modelling, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-01 Thibault Boulet

We derive age constraints for 1639 red giants in the APOKASC sample for which seismic parameters from Kepler, as well as effective temperatures, metallicities and [alpha/Fe] values from APOGEE DR12 are available. We investigate the relation…

The light distribution in the inner few kiloparsecs of the Milky Way is recovered non-parametrically from a dust-corrected near-infrared COBE/DIRBE surface brightness map of the inner Galaxy. The best fits to the photometry are obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 James Binney , Ortwin Gerhard , David Spergel

We determine the average metallicities of the elements of cold halo substructure (ECHOS) that we previously identified in the inner halo of the Milky Way within 17.5 kpc of the Sun. As a population, we find that stars kinematically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Kevin C. Schlaufman , Constance M. Rockosi , Young Sun Lee , Timothy C. Beers , Carlos Allende Prieto