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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 463, 期 4, 页码 4366-4382出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2287
关键词
stars: abundances; Galaxy: abundances; Galaxy: disc; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; open clusters and associations: general
资金
- Robert A. Welch Foundation of Houston, Texas [F-634]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
We have collected high-dispersion echelle spectra of red giant members in the 12 open clusters (OCs) and derived stellar parameters and chemical abundances for 26 species by either line equivalent widths or synthetic spectrum analyses. We confirm the lack of an age-metallicity relation for OCs but argue that such a lack of trend for OCs arise from the limited coverage in metallicity compared to that of field stars which span a wide range in metallicity and age. We confirm that the radial metallicity gradient of OCs is steeper (flatter) for R-gc < 12 kpc (>12 kpc). We demonstrate that the sample of clusters constituting a steep radial metallicity gradient of slope -0.052 +/- 0.011 dex kpc(-1) at R-gc < 12 kpc are younger than 1.5 Gyr and located close to the Galactic mid-plane (vertical bar z vertical bar < 0.5 kpc) with kinematics typical of the thin disc. Whereas the clusters describing a shallow slope of -0.015 +/- 0.007 dex kpc(-1) at R-gc > 12 kpc are relatively old, thick disc members with a striking spread in age and height above the mid-plane (0.5 < vertical bar z vertical bar < 2.5 kpc). Our investigation reveals that the OCs and field stars yield consistent radial metallicity gradients if the comparison is limited to samples drawn from the similar vertical heights. We argue via the computation of Galactic orbits that all the outer disc clusters were actually born inwards of 12 kpc but the orbital eccentricity has taken them to present locations very far from their birthplaces.
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