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Forward Modelling the Secular Evolution of the Milky Way Disk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
We know precisely the position of the Sun in our Galaxy. Yet, like for most stars, we cannot tell where it was born. Stars undergo dynamical memory loss: their orbits evolve, because the Milky Way, like many galaxies, has non-axisymmetric structures ...
Frankel, Neige
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The Metal-weak Milky Way Stellar Disk Hidden in the Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus Debris: The APOGEE DR17 View

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg–Mn–Al–Fe plane with elemental abundances ...
Sofia Feltzing, Diane Feuillet
doaj   +1 more source

Chemodynamical Analysis of Metal-rich High-eccentricity Stars in the Milky Way's Disk

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We present a chemodynamical analysis of 11,562 metal-rich, high-eccentricity halo-like main-sequence stars, which have been referred to as the Splash or Splashed Disk, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...
Ayeon Lee   +4 more
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A Blueprint for the Milky Way’s Stellar Populations. IV. A String of Pearls—the Galactic Starburst Sequence

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We continue our series of papers on phase-space distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on photometrically derived metallicities and Gaia astrometry, with a focus on the halo−disk interface in the local volume.
Deokkeun An   +3 more
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Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Andrew P. Cooper   +64 more
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Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way and Chemical Tagging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
One of the most important unsolved mysteries of astronomy is the formation and evolution of galaxies. The Milky Way is an ideal testbed for testing our understanding of galaxy evolution, as we can directly observe individual stars and their properties ...
Chen, Boquan
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The GOTHAM survey: chemical evolution of Milky Way globular clusters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Milky Way globular clusters are excellent laboratories for stellar population detailed analysis that can be applied to extragalactic environments with the advent of the 40m-class telescopes like the ELT.
Dias, Bruno   +6 more
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The Rapid Onset of Stellar Bars in the Baryon-dominated Centers of Disk Galaxies

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Recent observations of high-redshift galactic disks ( z ≈ 1–3) show a strong negative trend in the dark-matter (DM) fraction f _DM with increasing baryon surface density.
Joss Bland-Hawthorn   +3 more
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The Tilt of the Velocity Ellipsoid of Different Galactic Disk Populations

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The tilt of the velocity ellipsoid is a helpful tracer of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way. In this paper, we use nearly 140,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and Gaia to make a detailed analysis of the tilt of the velocity ...
Weixiang Sun, Han Shen, Xiaowei Liu
doaj   +1 more source

The Imprint of Clump Formation at High Redshift. II. The Chemistry of the Bulge

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
In Paper I, we showed that clumps in high-redshift galaxies, having a high star formation rate density (Σ _SFR ), produce disks with two tracks in the [Fe/H]–[ α /Fe] chemical space, similar to that of the Milky Way’s (MW’s) thin+thick disks.
Victor P. Debattista   +13 more
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