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| العنوان: |
The evolution of the Milky Way's thin disc radial metallicity gradient with K2 asteroseismic ages. |
| المؤلفون: |
Willett, Emma, Miglio, Andrea, Mackereth, J Ted, Chiappini, Cristina, Lyttle, Alexander J, Elsworth, Yvonne, Mosser, Benoît, Khan, Saniya, Anders, Friedrich, Casali, Giada, Grisoni, Valeria |
| المصدر: |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Dec2023, Vol. 526 Issue 2, p2141-2155, 15p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
MILKY Way, OPEN clusters of stars, CEPHEIDS, RED giants, VARIABLE stars, AGE of stars, GALACTIC evolution |
| مستخلص: |
The radial metallicity distribution of the Milky Way's disc is an important observational constraint for models of the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. It informs our understanding of the chemical enrichment of the Galactic disc and the dynamical processes therein, particularly radial migration. We investigate how the metallicity changes with guiding radius in the thin disc using a sample of red giant stars with robust astrometric, spectroscopic, and asteroseismic parameters. Our sample contains 668 stars with guiding radii 4 < R g < 11 kpc and asteroseismic ages covering the whole history of the thin disc with precision |${\approx} 25 {{\, \rm per\ cent}}$|. We use MCMC analysis to measure the gradient and its intrinsic spread in bins of age and construct a hierarchical Bayesian model to investigate the evolution of these parameters independently of the bins. We find a smooth evolution of the gradient from ≈−0.07 dex kpc−1 in the youngest stars to ≈−0.04 dex kpc−1 in stars older than 10 Gyr, with no break at intermediate ages. Our results are consistent with those based on asteroseismic ages from CoRoT , with that found in Cepheid variables for stars younger than 1 Gyr, and with open clusters for stars younger than 6 Gyr. For older stars we find a significantly lower metallicity in our sample than in the clusters, suggesting a survival bias favouring more metal-rich clusters. We also find that the chemical evolution model of Chiappini '09 is too metal poor in the early stages of disc formation. Our results provide strong new constraints for the growth and enrichment of the thin disc and radial migration, which will facilitate new tests of model conditions and physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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