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Description
Precise chemical abundances coupled with reliable ages are key ingredients to understand the chemical history of our Galaxy. Open Clusters (OCs) are useful for this purpose because they provide ages with good precision. The aim of this work is to investigate the relations of different chemical abundance ratios vs age traced by red clump (RC) stars in OCs. We analyze a large sample of "NGoodstars" reliable members in "NClusters" OCs with available high-resolution spectroscopy. We applied a differential line-by-line analysis to provide a comprehensive chemical study of "NElements" chemical species. This sample is among the largest samples of OCs homogeneously characterized in terms of atmospheric parameters, detailed chemistry, and ages. In our metallicity range (-0.2<[M/H]<+0.2) we find that while most Fe-peak and {alpha} elements have flat dependence with age, the s-process elements show decreasing trends with increasing age with a remarkable knee at 1Gyr. For Ba, Ce, Y, Mo and Zr we find a plateau at young ages (<1Gyr). We investigate the relations of all possible combinations among the computed chemical species with age. We find 19 combinations with significant slopes, including [Y/Mg] and [Y/Al]. The ratio [Ba/{alpha}] is the one with the most significant correlations found. We find that the [Y/Mg] relation found in the literature using Solar twins is compatible with the one found here in the Solar neighbourhood. The age-abundance relations show larger scatter for clusters at large distances (d>1kpc) than for the Solar neighbourhood, particularly in the outer disk. We conclude that these relations need to be understood also in terms of the complexity of the chemical space introduced by the Galactic dynamics, on top of pure nucleosynthetic arguments, especially out of the local bubble.
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