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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

In this series of lectures I discuss the basic principles and the modelling of the chemical evolution of galaxies. In particular, I present models for the chemical evolution of the Milky Way galaxy and compare them with the available…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Matteucci

Previous studies have found that the elemental abundances of a star correlate directly with its age and metallicity. Using this knowledge, we derive ages for a sample of 250,000 stars taken from GALAH DR3 using only their overall…

The determination of stellar populations of galaxies are important for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies, because all galaxies contain many stars and they evolve with galaxies. Spectra data are usually used to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Zhongmu Li

Galactic archaeology represents a multidisciplinary approach aimed at unraveling the intricate history of the Milky Way galaxy through the study of its stellar populations. This abstract delves into the significance of galactic archaeology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-17 J. Alfredo Collazos

Stellar ages are a crucial component to studying the evolution of the Milky Way. Using Gaia DR2 distance estimates, it is now possible to estimate stellar ages for a larger volume of evolved stars through isochrone matching. This work…

The age and chemical composition of the stars in present-day galaxies carry important clues about their star formation processes. The latest generation of population synthesis models have allowed to derive age and stellar metallicity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Anna Gallazzi

For several decades now, open clusters have been used to study the structure and chemical evolution of the disk of our Galaxy. Due to the fact that their ages and metallicities can be determined with relatively good precision, and since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. E. Tecce , L. J. Pellizza , A. E. Piatti

The age and chemical characteristics of the Galactic bulge link to the formation and evolutionary history of the Galaxy. Data-driven methods and large surveys enable stellar ages and precision chemical abundances to be determined for vast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-31 Tawny Sit , Melissa Ness

The early science results from the new generation of high-resolution stellar spectroscopic surveys, such as GALAH and the Gaia-ESO survey, will represent major milestones in the quest to chemically tag the Galaxy. Yet this technique to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. W. Mitschang , G. De Silva , D. B. Zucker , B. Anguiano , T. Bensby , S. Feltzing

Statistical inference in observational science typically relies on a fundamental assumption: as sample size increases and uncertainties decrease, the inferred results should converge to the true physical quantities. This assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zhipeng Zhang

The derivation of accurate stellar populations of galaxies is a non-trivial task because of the well-known age-metallicity degeneracy. We aim to break this degeneracy by invoking a chemical evolution model(CEM) for isolated disk galaxy,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Shiyin Shen , Jun Yin

I discuss the chemical and spectrophotometric evolution of galaxies over cosmological timescales and present a first attempt to treat both aspects in a chemically consistent way. In our evolutionary synthesis approach, we account for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben

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

Galactic archaeology relies on accurate stellar parameters to reconstruct the galaxy's history, including information on stellar ages. While the precision of data has improved significantly in recent years, stellar models used for age…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Leslie M. Morales , Jamie Tayar , Zachary R. Claytor

The Milky Way serves as a template for understanding the formation and evolution of late-type massive disk galaxies since we can obtain detailed chemical and kinematic information for large samples of individual stars. However, the early…

Stars, and collections of stars, encode rich signatures of stellar physics and galaxy evolution. With properties influenced by both their environment and intrinsic nature, stars retain information about astrophysical phenomena that are not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-23 Kirsten Blancato

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

We develop a theoretical framework that extracts a deeper understanding of galaxy formation from empirically-derived relations among galaxy properties by extending the main-sequence integration method for computing galaxy star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Joseph A. Muñoz , Molly S. Peeples

Using 17 chemical elements as a proxy for stellar DNA, we present a full phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood. This entails applying a clustering technique that is widely used in molecular biology to construct an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Paula Jofre , Payel Das , Jaume Bertranpetit , Robert Foley