Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 19, 2012
Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
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Article Number | 05004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Disc Assembly: Chemo-Dynamical Evolution, Radial Mixing | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905004 | |
Published online | 07 February 2012 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905004
Solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc(s): New constraints
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
a e-mail: luca@mpa-garching.mpg.de
We present a re-analysis of the Geneva-Copenhagen survey, based on improved effective temperature and metallicity scales, which also provide a better match to theoretical isochrones. The latter are used for a Bayesian investigation on stellar ages. With respect to previous analyses, our stars are on average 100 K hotter and 0.1 dex more metal rich, which shifts the peak of the metallicity distribution function around the solar value. From Strömgren photometry we are able to derive for the first time a proxy for alpha elements, which enables us to perform a tentative dissection of the chemical thin and thick disc. We find evidence for the latter being composed of an old, mildly but systematically alpha-enhanced population that extends to super solar metallicities, in agreement with spectroscopic studies. Our analysis suggests a strong interplay among ages, abundances and kinematics of stars.
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