Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model

JW Johnson, DH Weinberg, F Vincenzo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We develop a hybrid model of galactic chemical evolution that combines a multiring
computation of chemical enrichment with a prescription for stellar migration and the vertical …

From the bulge to the outer disc: StarHorse stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions for stars in APOGEE DR16 and other spectroscopic surveys

ABA Queiroz, F Anders, C Chiappini… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We combine high-resolution spectroscopic data from APOGEE-2 survey Data Release 16
(DR16) with broad-band photometric data from several sources as well as parallaxes from …

Final targeting strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2S survey

FA Santana, RL Beaton, KR Covey… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
APOGEE is a high-resolution (R∼ 22,000), near-infrared, multi-epoch, spectroscopic survey
of the Milky Way. The second generation of the APOGEE project, APOGEE-2, includes an …

The GALAH survey: Tracing the Galactic disc with open clusters

L Spina, YS Ting, GM De Silva, N Frankel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Open clusters are unique tracers of the history of our own Galaxy's disc. According to our
membership analysis based on Gaia astrometry, out of the 226 potential clusters falling in …

APOGEE DR16: A multi-zone chemical evolution model for the Galactic disc based on MCMC methods

E Spitoni, K Verma, VS Aguirre, F Vincenzo… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The analysis of the latest release of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic
Evolution Experiment project (APOGEE DR16) data suggests the existence of a clear …

A core in a star-forming disc as evidence of inside-out growth in the early Universe

WM Baker, S Tacchella, BD Johnson, E Nelson… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The physical processes that establish the morphological evolution and the structural
diversity of galaxies are key unknowns in extragalactic astrophysics. Here we report the …

Spectroscopic age estimates for APOGEE red-giant stars: Precise spatial and kinematic trends with age in the Galactic disc

F Anders, P Gispert, B Ratcliffe, C Chiappini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Over the last few years, many studies have found an empirical relationship between the
abundance of a star and its age. Here we estimate spectroscopic stellar ages for 178 825 …

A tilted dark halo origin of the Galactic disk warp and flare

JJ Han, C Conroy, L Hernquist - Nature Astronomy, 2023 - nature.com
The outer disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is warped and flared. Several mechanisms have
been proposed to explain these phenomena, but none have quantitatively reproduced both …

Stellar Abundance Maps of the Milky Way Disk

AC Eilers, DW Hogg, HW Rix, MK Ness… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To understand the formation of the Milky Way's prominent bar it is important to know whether
stars in the bar differ in the chemical element composition of their birth material as compared …

The evolution of the Milky Way's thin disc radial metallicity gradient with K2 asteroseismic ages

E Willett, A Miglio, JT Mackereth… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
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 …