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Models of the chemical evolution of our Galaxy are extended to include radial migration of stars and flow of gas through the disc. The models track the production of both iron and alpha elements. A model is chosen that provides an excellent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ralph Schoenrich , James Binney

Chemical abundances provide important clues to the evolution of galaxies. Ionized nebulae are one of the main sources of chemical abundance measurements, especially in external galaxies. Studies of H II regions have shown that the overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Shields

The supernovae SN II & Ib/c make major stellar nucleosynthetic contributions to the inventories of the stable nuclides during the chemical evolution of the galaxy. A case study is performed here with the help of recently developed numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-04 Sandeep Sahijpal

Nuclear starburst discs (NSDs) are very compact star-forming regions in the centers of galaxies that have been studied as a possible origin for the absorbing gas around a central active galactic nucleus. NSDs may be most relevant at $z\sim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 R. Gohil , D. R. Ballantyne , G. Li

Growing evidence shows that most stars in the Milky Way, including the Sun, are born in high-mass star-forming regions, but due to both observational and theoretical challenges, our understanding of their chemical evolution is much less…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Francesco Fontani , Maria Teresa Beltrán , Anton Vasyunin

In the era of large stellar spectroscopic surveys, there is emphasis on deriving not only stellar abundances but also ages for millions of stars. In the context of Galactic archeology, stellar ages provide a direct probe of the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-23 Aaron Dotter , Charlie Conroy , Phillip Cargile , Martin Asplund

The presence of nuclear discs in barred disc galaxies has been demonstrated in studies on stellar structures and kinematics. It is thus imperative to establish their fundamental properties and scaling relations, which can help understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-19 Dimitri A. Gadotti , Camila de Sá-Freitas

The Milky Way nuclear star cluster (NSC) is located within the nuclear stellar disc (NSD) in the Galactic centre. It is not fully understood if the formation and evolution of these two components are connected, and how they influence each…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 A. Feldmeier-Krause

In our grid of multiphase chemical evolution models (Moll\'a & D\'iaz, 2005), star formation in the disk occurs in two steps: first, molecular gas forms, and then stars are created by cloud-cloud collisions or interactions of massive stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 Mercedes Mollá , Ángeles I. Díaz , Yago Ascasibar , Brad K. Gibson

The distribution of chemical abundances and their variation in time are important tools to understand the chemical evolution of galaxies: in particular, the study of chemical evolution models can improve our understanding of the basic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Monica M. Marcon-Uchida , Francesca Matteucci , Roberto D. D. Costa

Models of chemical evolution of galaxies including the dust are nowadays required to decipher the high-z universe. In a series of three papers we have tackled the problem and set a modern chemical evolution model. In the first paper (Piovan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-25 L. Piovan , C. Chiosi , E. Merlin , T. Grassi , R. Tantalo , U. Buonomo , L. P. Cassarà

We study the role of radial motions of stars and gas on the evolution of abundance profiles in the Milky Way disk. We investigate, in a parametrized way, the impact of radial flows of gas and radial migration of stars induced mainly by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 M. Kubryk , N. Prantzos , E. Athanassoula

A chemical characterization of the Galactic Center is essential for understanding its formation and structural evolution. Trends of alpha-elements, such as Mg, Si, and Ca, serve as powerful diagnostic tools, offering insights into…

The {\it best} chemical evolution models for the galactic disk computed by different groups with different assumptions are compared with each other and with the observational constraints. Differences and similarities between the models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Monica Tosi

A clear understanding of the chemical processing of matter, as it is transferred from a molecular cloud to a planetary system, depends heavily on knowledge of the physical conditions endured by gas and dust as these accrete onto a disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David W. Koerner

Past studies have long emphasised the key role played by galactic stellar bars in the context of disc secular evolution, via the redistribution of gas and stars, the triggering of star formation, and the formation of prominent structures…

We discuss the main ingredients necessary to build models of chemical evolution of spiral galaxies and in particular the Milky Way galaxy. These ingredients include: the star formation rate, the initial mass function, the stellar yields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesca Matteucci

Stars are fossils that retain the history of their host galaxies. Carbon and heavier elements are created inside stars and are ejected when they die. From the spatial distribution of elements in galaxies, it is therefore possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Chiaki Kobayashi

We study the role of radial migration of stars on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk. In particular, we are interested in the impact of that process on the local properties of the disk (age-metallicity relation and its dispersion,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 M. Kubryk , N. Prantzos , E. Athanassoula

In this paper, we study the formation and chemical evolution of the Milky Way disc with particular focus on the abundance patterns ([$\alpha$/Fe] vs. [Fe/H]) at different Galactocentric distances, the present-time abundance gradients along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 V. Grisoni , E. Spitoni , F. Matteucci