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Thomas Bensby

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The Gaia-ESO Survey : Carbon Abundance in the Galactic Thin and Thick Disks

Author

  • Mariagrazia Franchini
  • Carlo Morossi
  • Paolo Di Marcantonio
  • Miguel Chavez
  • Vardan Zh Adibekyan
  • Amelia Bayo
  • Thomas Bensby
  • Angela Bragaglia
  • Francesco Calura
  • Sonia Duffau
  • Anais Gonneau
  • Ulrike Heiter
  • Georges Kordopatis
  • Donatella Romano
  • Luca Sbordone
  • Rodolfo Smiljanic
  • Gražina Tautvaišienė
  • Mathieu Van Der Swaelmen
  • Elisa Delgado Mena
  • Gerry Gilmore
  • Sofia Randich
  • Giovanni Carraro
  • Anna Hourihane
  • Laura Magrini
  • Lorenzo Morbidelli
  • Sérgio Sousa
  • C. Clare Worley
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Summary, in English

This paper focuses on carbon, which is one of the most abundant elements in the universe and is of high importance in the field of nucleosynthesis and galactic and stellar evolution. The origin of carbon and the relative importance of massive and low-to intermediate-mass stars in producing it is still a matter of debate. We aim at better understanding the origin of carbon by studying the trends of [C/H], [C/Fe], and [C/Mg] versus [Fe/H] and [Mg/H] for 2133 FGK dwarf stars from the fifth Gaia-ESO Survey internal data release (GES iDR5). The availability of accurate parallaxes and proper motions from Gaia DR2 and radial velocities from GES iDR5 allows us to compute Galactic velocities, orbits, absolute magnitudes, and, for 1751 stars, Bayesian-derived ages. Three different selection methodologies have been adopted to discriminate between thin-and thick-disk stars. In all the cases, the two stellar groups show different [C/H], [C/Fe], and [C/Mg] and span different age intervals, with the thick-disk stars being, on average, older than the thin-disk ones. The behaviors of [C/H], [C/Fe], and [C/Mg] versus [Fe/H], [Mg/H], and age all suggest that C is primarily produced in massive stars. The increase of [C/Mg] for young thin-disk stars indicates a contribution from low-mass stars or the increased C production from massive stars at high metallicities due to the enhanced mass loss. The analysis of the orbital parameters R med and IMG ALIGN="MIDDLE" ALT="$| {Z}-{\max }| $" SRC="apjab5dc4ieqn1.gif supports an "inside-out" and "upside-down" formation scenario for the disks of the Milky Way.

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Publication/Series

Astrophysical Journal

Volume

888

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Astronomical Society

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Status

Published

Project

  • Gaia-ESO Survey

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0004-637X