Bibcode
Feuillet, D. K.; Bovy, Jo; Holtzman, Jon; Weinberg, David H.; García-Hernández, D. A.; Hearty, Fred R.; Majewski, Steven R.; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Rybizki, Jan; Zamora, O.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 477, Issue 2, p.2326-2348
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2018
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In the age of high-resolution spectroscopic stellar surveys of the Milky
Way, the number of stars with detailed abundances of multiple elements
is rapidly increasing. These elemental abundances are directly
influenced by the evolutionary history of the Galaxy, but this can be
difficult to interpret without an absolute timeline of the abundance
enrichment. We present age-abundance trends for [M/H], [α/M], and
17 individual elements using a sample of 721 solar neighbourhood
Hipparcos red giant stars observed by Apache Point Observatory Galactic
Evolution Experiment. These age trends are determined through a Bayesian
hierarchical modelling method presented by Feuillet et al. We confirm
that the [α/M]-age relation in the solar neighbourhood is steep
and relatively narrow (0.20 dex age dispersion), as are the [O/M]-age
and [Mg/M]-age relations. The age trend of [C/N] is steep and smooth,
consistent with stellar evolution. The [M/H]-age relation has a mean age
dispersion of 0.28 dex and a complex overall structure. The oldest stars
in our sample are those with the lowest and highest metallicities, while
the youngest stars are those with solar metallicity. These results
provide strong constraints on theoretical models of Galactic chemical
evolution (GCE). We compare them to the predictions of one-zone GCE
models and multizone mixtures, both analytic and numerical. These
comparisons support the hypothesis that the solar neighbourhood is
composed of stars born at a range of Galactocentric radii, and that the
most metal-rich stars likely migrated from a region with earlier and
more rapid star formation such as the inner Galaxy.
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