Chemodynamical evolution of the Milky Way disk - I. The solar vicinity
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...In the future, we plan to do a more detailed comparison between APOGEE observations and the simulation from 11 Minchev et al. (2013), in which the selection function is taken into account....
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...The fraction of stars that undergo radial migration is difficult to predict from first principles because it depends in detail on spiral structure, bar perturbations, and perturbations by and mergers with satellites (e.g., Roškar et al. (2008); Bird et al. (2012, 2013); Minchev et al. (2013))....
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...…models of the chemical and kinematical evolution of the Milky Way have become increasingly sophisticated (e.g., Hou et al. 2000; Chiappini et al. 2001; Schönrich & Binney 2009; Kubryk et al. 2013; Minchev et al. 2013) and attempt to explain both the chemical and dynamical history of the Galaxy....
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...…Minchev et al. (2013) match many observed properties of the disk, such as the stellar distribution in the [α/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] plane (see Figure 12 of Minchev et al. 2013), and the flattening of the radial gradient with height (e.g., Anders et al. 2014; Hayden et al. 2014, see Figure 10 of Minchev…...
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...Recent simulations by Minchev et al. (2013) match many observed properties of the disk, such as the stellar distribution in the [α/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] plane (see Figure 12 of Minchev et al. 2013), and the flattening of the radial gradient with height (e.g., Anders et al. 2014; Hayden et al. 2014, see…...
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...…have often claimed that radial migration is a fundamental mechanism in driving the evolution of a thick disk because, in these models, thick disk stars within the solar neighborhood are found with a variety of formation radii, frequently smaller than 4 kpc (Brook et al. 2012; Minchev et al. 2013)....
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...Moreover, if the α-enriched population had an initial gradient that was subsequently erased, we should find a significant increase of the metallicity dispersion with age (Minchev et al. 2013), especially at ages greater than 8 Gyr, which is not observed....
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...The possibility that the thick disk is the result of secular processes instead of more violent ones has been extensively debated in the last couple of years (Schönrich & Binney 2009b; Loebman et al. 2011; Minchev et al. 2013)....
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...1, where we have corrected for asymmetric drift as described in, e.g., Binney and Tremaine (2008)....
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...(ii) the bulge is relatively small, with a bulge-to-total ratio of ∼1/5 (as measured with GALFIT – Peng et al. 2002 – on a mock i-band image, see bottom panel of Fig....
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