Unveiling the time evolution of chemical abundances across the Milky Way disc with APOGEE

B Ratcliffe, I Minchev, F Anders… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chemical abundances are an essential tool in untangling the Milky Way's enrichment
history. However, the evolution of the interstellar medium abundance gradient with cosmic …

A Swing of the Pendulum: The Chemodynamics of the Local Stellar Halo Indicate Contributions from Several Radial Merger Events

T Donlon, HJ Newberg - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We find that the chemical abundances and dynamics of APOGEE and GALAH stars in the
local stellar halo are inconsistent with a scenario in which the inner halo is primarily …

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a 2-process Model and Residual Abundances

DH Weinberg, JA Holtzman, JA Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We apply a novel statistical analysis to measurements of 16 elemental abundances in
34,410 Milky Way disk stars from the final data release (DR17) of APOGEE-2. Building on …

How many elements matter?

YS Ting, DH Weinberg - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Some studies of stars' multielement abundance distributions suggest at least 5–7 significant
dimensions, but others show that many elemental abundances can be predicted to high …

3D elemental abundances of stars at formation across the histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations

MA Bellardini, A Wetzel, SR Loebman… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We characterize the 3D spatial variations of [Fe/H],[Mg/H], and [Mg/Fe] in stars at the time of
their formation, across 11 simulated Milky Way (MW)-and M31-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 …

Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations

EJ Griffith, DH Weinberg, S Buder… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the [X/Mg] abundances of 16 elements for 82,910 Galactic disk stars from
GALAH+ DR3. We fit the median trends of low-Ia and high-Ia populations with a two-process …

Reliability and limitations of inferring birth radii in the Milky Way disc

Y Lu, T Buck, I Minchev, MK Ness - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recovering the birth radii of observed stars in the Milky Way is one of the ultimate goals of
Galactic Archaeology. One method to infer the birth radius and the evolution of the …

Neutron-capture elements record the ordered chemical evolution of the disc over time

D Horta, MK Ness, J Rybizki… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
An ensemble of chemical abundances probing different nucleosynthetic channels can be
leveraged to build a comprehensive understanding of the chemical and structural evolution …

Assembling a high-precision abundance catalogue of solar twins in GALAH for phylogenetic studies

K Walsen, P Jofré, S Buder, K Yaxley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Stellar chemical abundances have proved themselves a key source of information for
understanding the evolution of the Milky Way, and the scale of major stellar surveys such as …

A Comprehensive Study of Open Cluster Chemical Homogeneity Using APOGEE and Milky Way Mapper Abundances

A Sinha, G Zasowski, P Frinchaboy… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Stars in an open cluster are assumed to have formed from a broadly homogeneous
distribution of gas, implying that they should be chemically homogeneous. Quantifying the …