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We analyze ages and metallicities for some 5.5 million stars distributed throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) main body, obtained from CCD Washington CT1 photometry. We produce a comprehensive field star Age-Metallicity Relationship…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrés E. Piatti , Doug Geisler

We report metallicities for three $\sim$Gyr-old stars in the Milky Way nuclear star cluster (NSC) using high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy. We derive effective temperatures from a calibration with Sc line strength, which yields…

We explore the chemical distribution of stars in a simulated galaxy. Using simulations of the same initial conditions but with two different feedback schemes (MUGS and MaGICC), we examine the features of the age-metallicity relation (AMR),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 O. N. Snaith , J. Bailin , B. K. Gibson , E. F. Bell , G. Stinson , M. Valluri , J. Wadsley , H. Couchman

The determination of ages of central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPN) is a complex problem, and there is presently no single method that can be generally applied. We have developed several methods to estimate the ages of CSPN, based both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 W. J. Maciel , R. D. D. Costa , T. E. P. Idiart

In this paper we have compiled two new open cluster catalogues. In the first one, there are 119 objects with ages, distances and metallicities available, while in the second one, 144 objects have both absolute proper motion and radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Chen , J. L. Hou , J. J. Wang

We present maps of the mean metallicity distributions on the Galactocentric $R$--$Z$ plane at different azimuthal angles using red clump stars selected from the LAMOST and APOGEE surveys. In the inner disk ($R < $ 11\,kpc), the metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-01 Chun Wang , Yang Huang , Timothy C. Beers , Payel Das , Haibo Yuan , Lizhi Xie , Shi Shao

As part of a stellar population sampling program, a series of photometric probes at various field sizes and depths have been obtained in a low extinction window in the galactic anticentre direction. Such data set strong constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Annie C. Robin , Michel Creze , Vijay Mohan

We present precision radial velocities and stellar population parameters for 77 star clusters in the Local Group galaxy M33. Our GTC and WHT observations sample both young, massive clusters and known/candidate globular clusters, spanning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-24 Michael A. Beasley , Izaskun San Roman , Carme Gallart , Ata Sarajedini , Antonio Aparicio

The first determination of the age of the Galactic thin disk from Th/Eu nucleocosmochronology was accomplished by us in Papers I and II. The present work aimed at reducing the age uncertainty by expanding the stellar sample with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. F. del Peloso , L. da Silva , G. F. Porto de Mello , L. I. Arany-Prado

Asteroseismology is a promising tool to study Galactic structure and evolution because it can probe the ages of stars. Earlier attempts comparing seismic data from the {\it Kepler} satellite with predictions from Galaxy models found that…

The age of an individual star cannot be measured, only estimated through mostly model-dependent or empirical methods, and no single method works well for a broad range of stellar types or for a full range in age. This review presents a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 David R. Soderblom

We present an unbiased method for evaluating the ranges of ages and metallicities which are allowed by the photometric properties of the stellar populations that dominate the light of early-type galaxies in clusters. The method is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Ferreras , S. Charlot , J. Silk

We present the age-velocity dispersion relation (AVR) in three dimensions in the solar neighbourhood using 3,564 commonly observed sub-giant/red-giant branch stars selected from LAMOST, which gives the age and radial velocity, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Jincheng Yu , Chao Liu

We calculate the stellar mass-metallicity relation at five epochs ranging to z~2.3. We quantify evolution in the shape of the mass-metallicity relation as a function of redshift; the mass-metallicity relation flattens at late times. There…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. Jabran Zahid , Margaret Geller , Lisa Kewley , Ho Seong Hwang , Daniel Fabricant , Michael Kurtz

We present a new approach to study the mass-metallicity relation and its dependency on time. We used the star formation history (SFH) derived from color-magnitude diagram fitting techniques of a sample of Local Group (LG) dwarfs to obtain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-25 Sebastian L Hidalgo

Using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of 418 red-giant stars close to the Galactic disc plane (6 kpc $<R_{\rm Gal}\lesssim13$ kpc, $|Z_{\rm Gal}|<0.3$ kpc), we measure the age dependence of the radial metallicity…

We produce a comprehensive field star age-metallicity relationship (AMR) from the earliest epoch until ~ 1 Gyr ago for three fields in the Fornax dSph galaxy by using VI photometric data obtained with FORS1 at the VLT. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrés E. Piatti , Andrés del Pino , Antonio Aparicio , Sebastián L. Hidalgo

Sun-like dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood reflect ages, an ``average'' chemical evolution, and departures from that average. We show the chemical, and kinematic properties of four groups of Sunlike dwarfs form a continuum related to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Charles C. Cowley , Robert E. Stencel

We review the possibility that metallicity could provide a diagnostic for the age of a galaxy, hence that the most metal-poor star forming galaxies in the local universe may be genuinely young. Indeed, observational evidence for downsizing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel Kunth , Goran Ostlin

We explore the connections between stellar age, chemistry, and kinematics across a Galactocentric distance of $7.5 < R\,(\mathrm{kpc}) < 9.0$, using a sample of $\sim 12\,000$ intermediate-mass (FGK) turnoff stars observed with the RAdial…