Ralph Schönrich

TL;DR: In this article, the stellar kinematics of the solar neighbourhood in terms of the velocity υ� of the Sun with respect to the local standard of rest were examined. But the results were not robust to the metallicity gradient in the disc, which introduces a correlation between the colour of a group of stars and the radial gradients of its properties.

TL;DR: In this article, the Geneva-Copenhagen survey was used for a re-analysis of the spectral properties of the stars in the solar neighborhood and the results showed that the stars are on average 100 K hotter and 0.1 dex more metal rich, which shifted the peak of the metallicity distribution function around the solar value.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of the chemical evolution of our Galaxy is extended to include radial migration of stars and flow of gas through the disc, and the model provides a good fit to the distribution of GCS stars in the age-metallicity plane, although this plane was not used in the fitting process.

TL;DR: Data Release 13 (DR13) as discussed by the authors provides the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS).

TL;DR: In this paper, the chemical and dynamical structure in the solar neighbourhood of a model galaxy is examined, which is the endpoint of a simulation of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way in the presence of radial mixing of stars and gas.