The evolution of the Milky Way's radial metallicity gradient as seen by APOGEE, CoRoT, and Gaia
Abstract
The time evolution of the radial metallicity gradient is one of the most important constraints for Milky Way chemical and chemo-dynamical models. In this talk we reviewed the status of the observational debate and presented a new measurement of the age dependence of the radial abundance gradients, using combined asteroseismic and spectroscopic observations of red giant stars. We compared our results to state-of-the-art chemo-dynamical Milky Way models and recent literature results obtained with open clusters and planetary nebulae, and propose a new method to infer the past history of the Galactic radial abundance profile.
- Publication:
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IAU General Assembly
- Pub Date:
- March 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131900423X
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUGA..30..257A
- Keywords:
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- stars: asteroseismology;
- stars: late-type;
- stars: abundances;
- stars: distances;
- stars: ages;
- Galaxy: stellar content;
- Galaxy: evolution