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标题：Galactic Archaeology with asteroseismic ages: Evidence for delayed gas infall in the formation of the Milky Way disc
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作者：E. Spitoni ; V. Silva Aguirre ; F. Matteucci 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2019
卷号：623
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/201834188
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：Context. Precise stellar ages from asteroseismology have become available and can help to set stronger constraints on the evolution of the Galactic disc components. Recently, asteroseismology has confirmed a clear age difference in the solar annulus between two distinct sequences in the [α/Fe] versus [Fe/H] abundance ratios relation: the high-αand low-αstellar populations.Aims. We aim to reproduce these new data with chemical evolution models including different assumptions for the history and number of accretion events.Methods. We tested two different approaches: a revised version of the “two-infall” model where the high-αphase forms by a fast gas accretion episode and the low-αsequence follows later from a slower gas infall rate, and the parallel formation scenario where the two disc sequences form coevally and independently.Results. The revised two-infall model including uncertainties in age and metallicity is capable of reproducing: i) the [α/Fe] versus [Fe/H] abundance relation at different Galactic epochs, ii) the age−metallicity relation and the time evolution [α/Fe]; iii) the age distribution of the high-αand low-αstellar populations, iv) the metallicity distribution function. The parallel approach is not capable of properly reproducing the stellar age distribution, in particular at old ages.Conclusions. The best chemical evolution model is the revised two-infall one, where a consistent delay of ∼4.3 Gyr in the beginning of the second gas accretion episode is a crucial assumption to reproduce stellar abundances and ages.
关键词：enGalaxy: abundancesGalaxy: evolutionISM: generalasteroseismology