Open clusters in the Gaia-ESO Survey: tracing the chemical history of the Milky Way thin disk

2014 ◽  
Vol 67-68 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
L. Magrini ◽  
S. Randich
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way ◽  
Thin Disk ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chemical History

scholarly journals The nature of the Galactic bulge: A view from bulge planetary nebulae and globular clusters

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S283) ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
Alexander F. Kholtygin ◽  
Yulia V. Milanova ◽  
Igor' I. Nikiforov ◽  
Olga V. Vasyakina
Keyword(s):  
Globular Clusters ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Planetary Nebulae ◽  
Thin Disk ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Galactic Bulge ◽  
Abundance Pattern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Disk Subsystem ◽  
Chemical History

AbstractModern data concerning the planetary nebulae (PNe) in the bulge, bar and disk of the Milky Way are used to study the chemical history of bulge. We show that the abundance pattern is similar for PNe in the bulge and Peimbert's type II PNe. We also found that the globular clusters (GCs), especially their metal-rich disk subsystem, form on metallicity maps a bar-like structure which parameters are very close to those for the Galactic bar. These results evidence an old age of the Galactic bulge and bar. We propose a scenario of the successive star formation in the bulge, bar and thin disk.

scholarly journals A Gaia DR2 view of the open cluster population in the Milky Way

2018 ◽  
Vol 618 ◽  
pp. A93 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Cantat-Gaudin ◽  
C. Jordi ◽  
A. Vallenari ◽  
A. Bragaglia ◽  
L. Balaguer-Núñez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stellar Evolution ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Galactic Disk ◽  
Open Cluster ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
Number Of Clusters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gaia Dr2

Context. Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release contains precise astrometry at the submilliarcsecond level and homogeneous photometry at the mmag level, that can be used to characterise a large number of clusters over the entire sky. Aims. In this study we aim to establish a list of members and derive mean parameters, in particular distances, for as many clusters as possible, making use of Gaia data alone. Methods. We compiled a list of thousands of known or putative clusters from the literature. We then applied an unsupervised membership assignment code, UPMASK, to the Gaia DR2 data contained within the fields of those clusters. Results. We obtained a list of members and cluster parameters for 1229 clusters. As expected, the youngest clusters are seen to be tightly distributed near the Galactic plane and to trace the spiral arms of the Milky Way, while older objects are more uniformly distributed, deviate further from the plane, and tend to be located at larger Galactocentric distances. Thanks to the quality of Gaia DR2 astrometry, the fully homogeneous parameters derived in this study are the most precise to date. Furthermore, we report on the serendipitous discovery of 60 new open clusters in the fields analysed during this study.

The evolution of the Milky Way’s radial metallicity gradient as seen by APOGEE, CoRoT, and Gaia

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (A30) ◽  
pp. 257-257
Author(s):  
Friedrich Anders ◽  
Ivan Minchev ◽  
Cristina Chiappini
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way ◽  
Past History ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
Dynamical Models ◽  
Giant Stars ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Abundance Profile ◽  
Red Giant

AbstractThe time evolution of the radial metallicity gradient is one of the most important constraints for Milky Way chemical and chemo-dynamical models. In this talk we reviewed the status of the observational debate and presented a new measurement of the age dependence of the radial abundance gradients, using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of red giant stars. We compared our results to state-of-the-art chemo-dynamical Milky Way models and recent literature results obtained with open clusters and planetary nebulae, and propose a new method to infer the past history of the Galactic radial abundance profile.

scholarly journals Characterisation of the Galactic thick disk

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S298) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Thomas Bensby
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Thin Disk ◽  
Thick Disk ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Formation History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formation And Evolution

AbstractThick disks appear to be common in external large spiral galaxies and our own Milky Way also hosts one. The existence of a thick disk is possibly directly linked to the formation history of the host galaxy and if its properties is known it can constrain models of galaxy formation and help us to better understand galaxy formation and evolution. This brief review attempts to highlight some of the characteristics of the Galactic thick disk and how it relates to other stellar populations such as the thin disk and the Galactic bulge. Focus has been put on results from high-resolution spectroscopic data obtained during the last 10 to 15 years.

scholarly journals Surveys for Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy: A New Window on the Low-Abundance Universe

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
T.C. Beers
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way ◽  
High Signal ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Milky Way Galaxy ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chemical History ◽  
Low Metallicity ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Universe

Measurement of the abundances of the light and heavy elements in stars of the Milky Way galaxy is the cornerstone for the study of numerous aspects of chemical evolution in galaxies and the Universe. We stand poised to enter an era of rapid understanding, as new-generation telescopes with apertures in the 8m-10m class enable astronomers to obtain high-resolution, high-signal-to-noise near-UV, optical, and IR spectra of the stars which have locked up the chemical history of our Galaxy in their outer atmospheres. It is thus appropriate to review present surveys for the low-metallicity stars of our Galaxy, as the stars we uncover today will be studied so intensively in the coming decades.

scholarly journals VISTA variable survey in the Milky Way

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S262) ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
M. Hempel ◽  
D. Minniti ◽  
R. Saito ◽  
P. Pietrukowicz ◽  
P. W. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Globular Clusters ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Cluster Evolution ◽  
Rr Lyrae ◽  
Public Survey ◽  
History Of

AbstractOver the next 5 years the VVV collaboration (Vista Variable in the Via Lactea) will conduct an extensive survey of the galactic bulge and disk in the near-IR, using the new VISTA telescope. This public survey covers a field of 520 sqr. deg, including not only regions of high star formation, but also 33 known globular clusters and ~350 open clusters. The final product will be a deep IR atlas in 5 passbands for ~109 point sources among which we expect 106 variable stars. These will be produce a 3-D map of the surveyed region using well-understood primary distance indicators such as RR Lyrae stars. The observations will be combined with data from MACHO, OGLE, EROS, VST, Spitzer, HST, Chandra, Integral, and ALMA for a complete understanding of the variable sources in the inner Milky Way. Several important implications for the history of the Milky Way, for globular cluster evolution, for the population census of the bulge and center, and for the pulsation theory will follow from this survey.

scholarly journals The Milky Way thin disk structure as revealed by stars and young open clusters

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S298) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Carraro
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way ◽  
Spiral Structure ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Galactic Disk ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Thin Disk ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
Disk Structure ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn this contribution I shall focus on the structure of the Galactic thin disk. The evolution of the thin disk and its chemical properties have been discussed in detail by T. Bensby's contribution in conjunction with the properties of the Galactic thick disk, and by L.Olivia in conjunction with the properties of the Galactic bulge. I will review and discuss the status of our understanding of three major topics, which have been the subject of intense research nowadays, after long years of silence: (1) the spiral structure of the Milky Way, (2) the size of the Galactic disk, and (3) the nature of the Local arm (Orion spur), where the Sun is immersed. The provisional conclusions of this discussion are that: (1) we still have quite a poor knowledge of the Milky Way spiral structure, and the main disagreements among various tracers are still to be settled; (2) the Galactic disk does clearly not have an obvious luminous cut-off at about 14 kpc from the Galactic center, and next generation Galactic models need to be updated in this respect, and (3) the Local arm is most probably an inter-arm structure, similar to what we see in several external spirals, like M 74. Finally, the impact of Gaia and LAMOST in this field will be briefly discussed as well.

scholarly journals How does the stellar disk of the Milky Way get its gas?

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (S334) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Sebastián E. Nuza ◽  
Cristina Chiappini ◽  
Cecilia Scannapieco ◽  
Ivan Minchev ◽  
Marie Martig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Thin Disk ◽  
Stellar Disk ◽  
Galactocentric Distance ◽  
Chemical Abundances ◽  
Milky Way Galaxy ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inside Out

AbstractIn chemodynamical evolution models it is usually assumed that the Milky Way galaxy forms from the inside-out implying that gas inflows onto the disk decrease with galactocentric distance. Similarly, to reproduce differences between chemical abundances of the thick disk and bulge with respect to those of the thin disk, higher accretion fluxes at early times are postulated. By using a suite of Milky Way-like galaxies extracted from cosmological simulations, we investigate the accretion of gas on the simulated stellar disks during their whole evolution. In general, we find that the picture outlined above holds, although the detailed behavior depends on the assembly history of the Galaxy and the complexities inherent to the physics of galaxy formation.

scholarly journals Age-Metallicity Relation: Comparison of Open Clusters' Data with Stellar Populations

1996 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 351-351
Author(s):  
Giovanni Carraro ◽  
Yuen K. Ng
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Evolution ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Past History ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Open Clusters ◽  
Galactic Disc ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

The age–metallicity relation (AMR) from the Old Open Clusters population (Carraro & Chiosi, 1994; Friel & Janes, 1993) is compared with the disc stellar populations obtained from a recently developed model of the Milky Way by Ng 1994. A picture for the chemical evolution of the disc is presented in which the presence of a newly discovered Bar population (t = 8–9 Gyr, Z = 0.005–0.030) is taken into account. We suggest that the past history of the Galactic Disc has been significantly influenced by infall of metal poor gas from the halo and accretion events. The results are shown in Fig. 1.

scholarly journals Shaping Disk Galaxy Stellar Populations via Internal and External Processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 372-372
Author(s):  
Rok Roškar
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Stellar Population ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Radial Migration ◽  
Disk Formation ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nearby Galaxies ◽  
Gas Accretion

AbstractIn recent years, effects such as the radial migration of stars in disks have been recognized as important drivers of the properties of stellar populations. Radial migration arises due to perturbative effects of disk structures such as bars and spiral arms, and can deposit stars formed in disks to regions far from their birthplaces. Migrant stars can significantly affect the demographics of their new locales, especially in low-density regions such as in the outer disks. However, in the cosmological environment, other effects such as mergers and filamentary gas accretion also influence the disk formation process. Understanding the relative importance of these processes on the detailed evolution of stellar population signatures is crucial for reconstructing the history of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies. In the Milky Way disk in particular, the formation of the thickened component has recently attracted much attention due to its potential to serve as a diagnostic of the galaxy's early history. Some recent work suggests, however, that the vertical structure of Milky Way stellar populations is consistent with models that build up the thickened component through migration. I discuss these developments in the context of cosmological galaxy formation.

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