Milky Way Star Clusters and Gaia: A Review of the Ongoing Revolution

T Cantat-Gaudin - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented quality of the astrometric measurements obtained with the ESA Gaia
spacecraft have initiated a revolution in Milky Way astronomy. Studies of star clusters in …

[HTML][HTML] Gaia Data Release 3-Chemical cartography of the Milky Way

A Recio-Blanco, G Kordopatis, P de Laverny… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The motion of stars has been used to reveal details of the complex history of the
Milky Way, in constant interaction with its environment. Nevertheless, to reconstruct the …

The Gaia-ESO survey: Mapping the shape and evolution of the radial abundance gradients with open clusters

L Magrini, CV Vázquez, L Spina, S Randich… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The spatial distribution of elemental abundances and their time evolution are
among the major constraints to disentangling the scenarios of formation and evolution of 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 …

Mapping the Galactic metallicity gradient with open clusters: the state-of-the-art and future challenges

L Spina, L Magrini, K Cunha - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we make use of data collected for open cluster members by high-resolution
spectroscopic surveys and programmes (ie, APOGEE, Gaia-ESO, GALAH, OCCASO, and …

Hunting for neighboring open clusters with Gaia DR3: 101 new open clusters within 500 pc

S Qin, J Zhong, T Tang, L Chen - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We systematically searched for open clusters in the solar neighborhood within 500 pc using
the pyUPMASK and HDBSCAN clustering algorithms based on Gaia DR3. Taking into …

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 …

The open cluster chemical abundances and mapping survey. VI. Galactic chemical gradient analysis from APOGEE DR17

N Myers, J Donor, T Spoo, PM Frinchaboy… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is to
constrain key Galactic dynamic and chemical evolution parameters by the construction and …

The Gaia-ESO survey: Age-chemical-clock relations spatially resolved in the Galactic disc

CV Vázquez, L Magrini, G Casali… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The last decade has seen a revolution in our knowledge of the Galaxy thanks to the
Gaia and asteroseismic space missions and the ground-based spectroscopic surveys. Aims …

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 …