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We present a detailed study of the chemical diversity of the metal-poor Milky Way (MW) using data from the GALAH DR3 survey. Considering 17 chemical abundances relative to iron ([X/Fe]) for 9,923 stars, we employ Principal Component…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-29 Nicole Buckley , Payel Das , Paula Jofré , Robert M. Yates , Keith Hawkins

We present an overview of the distributions of 11 elemental abundances in the Milky Way's inner regions, as traced by APOGEE stars released as part of SDSS Data Release 14/15 (DR14/DR15), including O, Mg, Si, Ca, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Na, Al, and…

We report chemical abundances of 14 young $\alpha$-rich stars including neutron-capture elements based on high-quality optical spectra from HIRES/Keck I and differential line-by-line analysis. From the comparison of the abundance patterns…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Tadafumi Matsuno , David Yong , Wako Aoki , Miho N. Ishigaki

We discuss oxygen and iron abundance patterns in K and M red-giant members of the Galactic bulge and in the young and massive M-type stars inhabiting the very center of the Milky Way. The abundance results from the different bulge studies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Cunha , V. Smith , K. Sellgren , R. Blum , S. Ramirez , D. Terndrup

We develop a hybrid model of galactic chemical evolution that combines a multi-ring computation of chemical enrichment with a prescription for stellar migration and the vertical distribution of stellar populations informed by a cosmological…

The $([\alpha/{\rm Fe}],[{\rm Fe/H}])$ distribution of Milky Way stars shows at least two distinct sequences, which have traditionally been associated with the thin and thick disc components. The abundance distribution varies systematically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 Sanjib Sharma , Michael R. Hayden , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

We use a sample of 938 red clump giant stars located in the direction of the galactic long bar to study the chemistry of Milky Way bar stars. Kinematically separating stars on bar orbits from stars with inner disc orbits, we find that stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 C. Wegg , A. Rojas-Arriagada , M. Schultheis , O. Gerhard

We give independent proof of the deficit of stars in the in-plane central disc with respect to the predictions of a pure exponential density distribution. We use three different methods: 1) the inversion of the red clump giant distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Lopez-Corredoira , A. Cabrera-Lavers , O. Gerhard , F. Garzon

The ability to measure metallicities and {\alpha}-element abundances in individual red giant branch (RGB) stars using medium-resolution spectra ($R \approx 6000$) is a valuable tool for deciphering the nature of Milky Way dwarf satellites…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Lei Yang , Evan N. Kirby , Puragra Guhathakurta , Eric W. Peng , Lucy Cheng

We present measurements of the abundances of chromium, cobalt, and nickel in 4113 red giants, including 2277 stars in globular clusters, 1820 stars in the Milky Way's dwarf satellite galaxies, and 16 field stars. We measured the abundances…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-01 Evan N. Kirby , Justin L. Xie , Rachel Guo , Mikhail Kovalev , Maria Bergemann

We map the trends of elemental abundance ratios across the Galactic disk, spanning R = 3-15 kpc and midplane distance |Z|= 0-2 kpc, for 15 elements in a sample of 20,485 stars measured by the SDSS/APOGEE survey (O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, K,…

We present a detailed study of the composition of 20 M giants in the Galactic center with 15 of them confirmed to be in the Nuclear Star Cluster. As a control sample we have also observed 7 M giants in the Milky Way Disk with similar…

Using data from the GALAH survey, we explore the dependence of elemental abundances on stellar age and metallicity among Galactic disc stars. We find that the abundance of most elements can be predicted from age and [Fe/H] with an intrinsic…

We conducted an investigation on the chemical abundances of 4,316 stars in the red giant branch (RGB) phase from the recently released APO-K2 catalogue. Our aim was to characterize the abundance trends of the single elements with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-09 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

We investigate stellar elemental abundance patterns at z = 0 in 8 low-mass (M_* = 10^6 - 10^9 M_sun) galaxies in the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) cosmological simulations. Using magnesium (Mg) as a representative…

Based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan telescopes we present detailed elemental abundances for 64 red giant stars in the inner and outer Galactic disk. For the inner disk sample (4-7 kpc from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-11 T. Bensby , A. Alves-Brito , M. S. Oey , D. Yong , J. Meléndez

Since Gaia DR2 was released, many velocity structures in the disk have been revealed such as large scale ridge-like patterns in the phase space. Both kinematic information and stellar elemental abundances are needed to reveal their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-23 Xilong Liang , Jingkun Zhao , Yuqin Chen , Wenbo Zuo , Jiajun Zhang , Jia Zhu , Gang Zhao

The chemical compositions of the stars in Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies reveals the history of gas flows and star formation (SF) intensity. This talk presented a Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey of the Fe, Mg, Si, Ca, and Ti abundances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-10-26 Evan N. Kirby

Recent dynamical analysis based on Gaia data have revealed major accretion events in Milky Way's history. Nevertheless, our understanding of the primordial Galaxy is hindered because the bona fide identification of the most metal-poor and…

The discovery of metal-poor stars (where metal is any element more massive than helium) has enabled astronomers to probe the chemical enrichment history of the Milky Way. More recently, element abundances in gas inside high-redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jason X. Prochaska , J. Chris Howk , Arthur M. Wolfe