- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/413/159
- Title:
- Galactic abundance gradient. V.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/413/159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper reports on the spectroscopic investigation of 12 Cepheids which are situated in the crucial region of galactocentric distances from 9kpc to 12kpc, where according to our previous results (Andrievsky et al., 2002, Cat. <J/A+A/392/491>; Luck et al., 2003A&A...401..939L) the radial metallicity distribution experiences an obvious change. In particular, the wriggle in the iron abundance distribution is found to fall approximately at galactocentric distances 10-11kpc (assuming galactocentric distance of the Sun kpc). Within the transition zone from 10 to 11kpc the relative-to-solar iron abundance decreases approximately to -0.2dex. The new sample of stars, analyzed in present paper, gives results supporting the previous conclusion about the multimodal character of the metallicity distribution in galactic disc. Using a quite simple consideration of galactic chemical evolution we show that the observed distribution can be explained in the framework of a model which includes the spiral arms. In particular, the wriggle feature associated with 11 kpc can be interpreted as a change of metallicity level in the vicinity of the galactic corotation resonance.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/724/748
- Title:
- Galactic anticenter PNe and oxygen abundance
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/724/748
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained spectrophotometric observations of 41 anticenter planetary nebulae (PNe) located in the disk of the Milky Way. Electron temperatures and densities, as well as chemical abundances for He, N, O, Ne, S, Cl, and Ar were determined. Incorporating these results into our existing database of PN abundances (Henry et al., 2004AJ....127.2284H, Milingo et al., 2010, Cat. J/ApJ/711/619) yielded a sample of 124 well-observed objects with homogeneously determined abundances extending from 0.9 to 21kpc in galactocentric distance. We performed a detailed regression analysis which accounted for uncertainties in both oxygen abundances and radial distances in order to establish the metallicity gradient across the disk to be 12+log(O/H)=(9.09+/-0.05)-(0.058+/-0.006)xR_g_, with R_g_ in kpc. While we see some evidence that the gradient steepens at large galactocentric distances, more objects toward the anticenter need to be observed in order to confidently establish the true form of the metallicity gradient.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/614/A149
- Title:
- 417 Galactic bulge red giant O & Zn abund.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/614/A149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Oxygen and zinc in the Galactic bulge are key elements for the understanding of the bulge chemical evolution. Oxygen-to-iron abundance ratios provide a most robust indicator of the star formation rate and chemical evolution of the bulge. Zinc is enhanced in metal-poor stars, behaving as an {alpha}-element, and its production may require nucleosynthesis in hypernovae. Most of the neutral gas at high redshift is in damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs), where Zn is also observed to behave as an {alpha}-element. The aim of this work is the derivation of the {alpha}-element oxygen, together with nitrogen, and the iron-peak element zinc abundances in 417 bulge giants, from moderate resolution (R~22000) FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra. For stars in common with a set of UVES spectra with higher resolution (R~45000), the data are intercompared. The results are compared with literature data and chemodynamical models. We studied the spectra obtained for a large sample of red giant stars, chosen to be one magnitude above the horizontal branch, using FLAMES-GIRAFFE on the Very Large Telescope. We computed the O abundances using the forbidden [OI] 6300.3{AA} and Zn abundances using the ZnI 6362.34{AA} lines. Stellar parameters for these stars were established in a previous work from our group. We present oxygen abundances for 358 stars, nitrogen abundances for 403 stars and zinc abundances were derived for 333 stars. Having oxygen abundances for this large sample adds information in particular at the moderate metallicities of -1.6<[Fe/H]<-0.8. Zn behaves as an {alpha}-element, very similarly to O, Si, and Ca. It shows the same trend as a function of metallicity as the {alpha}-elements, i.e., a turnover around [Fe/H]~-0.6, and then decreasing with increasing metallicity. The results are compared with chemodynamical evolution models of O and Zn enrichment for a classical bulge. DLAs also show an enhanced zinc-to-iron ratio, suggesting they may be enriched by hypernovae.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A89
- Title:
- 56 Galactic bulge red giants Co and Cu abund.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/640/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Milky Way bulge is an important tracer of the early formation and chemical enrichment of the Galaxy. The abundances of different iron-peak elements in field bulge stars can give information on the nucleosynthesis processes that took place in the earliest supernovae. Cobalt (Z=27) and copper (Z=29) are particularly interesting. We aim to identify the nucleosynthesis processes responsible for the formation of the iron-peak elements Co and Cu. We derived abundances of the iron-peak elements cobalt and copper in 56 bulge giants, 13 of which were red clump stars. High-resolution spectra were obtained using FLAMES-UVES at the ESO Very Large Telescope by our group in 2000-2002, which appears to be the highest quality sample of optical high-resolution data on bulge red giants obtained in the literature to date. Over the years we have derived the abundances of C, N, O, Na, Al, Mg; the iron-group elements Mn and Zn; and neutron-capture elements. In the present work we derive abundances of the iron-peak elements cobalt and copper. We also compute chemodynamical evolution models to interpret the observed behaviour of these elements as a function of iron. The sample stars show mean values of [Co/Fe]~0.0 at all metallicities, and [Cu/Fe]~0.0 for [Fe/H]>=-0.8 and decreasing towards lower metallicities with a behaviour of a secondary element. We conclude that [Co/Fe] varies in lockstep with [Fe/H], which indicates that it should be produced in the alpha-rich freezeout mechanism in massive stars. Instead [Cu/Fe] follows the behaviour of a secondary element towards lower metallicities, indicating its production in the weak s-process nucleosynthesis in He-burning and later stages. The chemodynamical models presented here confirm the behaviour of these two elements (i.e. [Co/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] ~ constant and [Cu/Fe] decreasing with decreasing metallicities).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/381/32
- Title:
- Galactic Cepheid abundances
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/381/32
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- File table1 contains information about the program stars and spectra . Note that we also added to our sample two distant Cepheids (TV Cam and YZ Aur) which were previously analyzed by Harris & Pilachowski (1984ApJ...282..655H). File table2 contains relative-to-solar averaged elemental abundances (i.e. [El/H]) for program stars. First column gives the name of the star, other columns list the abundance data for all investigated elements. File tablea1 contains an Appendix table with elemental abundances from individual ions (ions are listed in the first column). For each star the following information is given: relative-to-solar abundance of a given ion (i.e. [M/H]), sigma-value, number of the lines used in analysis, absolute abundance of a given ion (M/H) in the scale where logA(H)=12.00.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/51
- Title:
- Galactic Cepheids abundance variations
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper reports on the spectroscopic investigation of 101 Cepheids in the Carina region. These Cepheids extend previous samples by about 35% in number and increase the amount of the Galactic disk coverage especially in the direction of l~~270{deg}. The new Cepheids do not add much information to the radial gradient, but provide a substantial increase in azimuthal coverage. We find no azimuthal dependence in abundance over an 80{deg} angle from the Galactic center in an annulus of 1kpc depth centered on the Sun. A simple linear fit to the Cepheid data yields a gradient d[Fe/H]/dR_G_=-0.055+/-0.003dex/kpc which is somewhat shallower than found from our previous, smaller Cepheid sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/39/942
- Title:
- Galactic classical Cepheids properties
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/39/942
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Based on our compiled catalogue of positions, velocities, ages, and abundances of nine chemical elements for 221 classical Cepheids, we analyze the dependences of the relative abundances of alpha-elements as well as rapid and slow neutron capture elements on metallicity, space velocity components, and Galactocentric distance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/418/551
- Title:
- Galactic disk stars abundances and velocities
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/418/551
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have performed the detailed analysis of 174 high-resolution spectra of FGK dwarfs obtained with the ELODIE echelle spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence. Abundances of Fe, Si and Ni have been determined from equivalent widths under LTE approximation, whereas abundances of Mg have been determined under NLTE approximation using equivalent widths of 4 lines and profiles of 5 lines. Spatial velocities with an accuracy better than 1kms, as well as orbits, have been computed for all stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/480/91
- Title:
- Galactic disk stars vertical distribution. IV.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/480/91
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the parameters of 891 stars, mostly clump giants, including atmospheric parameters, distances, absolute magnitudes, spatial velocities, galactic orbits and ages. One part of this sample consists of local giants, within 100pc, with atmospheric parameters either estimated from our spectroscopic observations at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio, or retrieved from the literature. The other part of the sample includes 523 distant stars, spanning distances up to 1 kpc in the direction of the North Galactic Pole, for which we have estimated atmospheric parameters from high resolution but low signal-to-noise Echelle spectra. This new sample is kinematically unbiased, with well-defined boundaries in magnitude and colours. We revisit the basic properties of the Galactic thin disk as traced by clump giants. We find the metallicity distribution to be different from that of dwarfs, with fewer metal-rich stars. We find evidence for a vertical metallicity gradient of -0.31dex/kpc and for a transition at 4-5Gyr in both the metallicity and velocities. The age - metallicity relation (AMR), which exhibits a very low dispersion, increases smoothly from 10 to 4Gyr, with a steeper increase for younger stars. The age-velocity relation (AVR) is characterized by the saturation of the V and W dispersions at 5Gyr, and continuous heating in U.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/95/54
- Title:
- Galactic-field RR Lyrae abundances and kinematics
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/95/54
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Data of our compiled catalog containing the positions, velocities, and metallicities of 415 RR Lyrae variable stars and the relative abundances [el/Fe] of 12 elements for 101 RR Lyrae stars, including four {alpha} elements (Mg, Ca, Si, and Ti), are used to study the relationships between the chemical and spatial-kinematic properties of these stars. In general, the dependences of the relative abundances of {alpha} elements on metallicity and velocity for the RR Lyrae stars are approximately the same as those for field dwarfs. Despite the usual claim that these stars are old, among them are representatives of the thin disk, which is the youngest subsystem of the Galaxy. Attention is called to the problem of low metallicity RR Lyrae stars. Most RR Lyrae stars that have the kinematic properties of thick disk stars have metallicities [Fe/H]<-1.0 and high ratios [{alpha}/Fe]~=0.4, whereas only about 10% of field dwarfs belonging to the so-called "low-metallicity tail" have this chemical composition. At the same time, there is a sharp change in [{alpha}/Fe] in RR Lyrae stars belonging just to the thick disk, providing evidence for a long period of formation of this subsystem. The chemical compositions of SDSS J1707+58, V455 Oph, MACHO176.18833.411, V456 Ser, and BPS CS 30339-046 do not correspond to their kinematics. While the first three of these stars belong to the halo, according to their kinematics, the last two belong to the thick disk. It is proposed that they are all most likely extragalactic, but the possible appearance of some of them in the solar neighborhood as a result of the gravitational action of the bar on field stars cannot be ruled out.
