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Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3048

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The GALAH Survey: Temporal Chemical Enrichment of the Galactic Disk

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Abstract

Abstract We present isochrone ages and initial bulk metallicities ($\rm [Fe/H]_{bulk}$, by accounting for diffusion) of 163,722 stars from the GALAH Data Release 2, mainly composed of main sequence turn-off stars and subgiants ($\rm 7000 K\gt T_{eff}\gt 4000 K$ and $\rm log g\gt 3$ dex). The local age-metallicity relationship (AMR) is nearly flat but with significant scatter at all ages; the scatter is even higher when considering the observed surface abundances. After correcting for selection effects, the AMR appear to have intrinsic structures indicative of two star formation events, which we speculate are connected to the thin and thick disks in the solar neighborhood. We also present abundance ratio trends for 16 elements as a function of age, across different $\rm [Fe/H]_{bulk}$ bins. In general, we find the trends in terms of [X/Fe] vs age from our far larger sample to be compatible with studies based on small (∼ 100 stars) samples of solar twins but we now extend it to both sub- and super-solar metallicities. The α-elements show differing behaviour: the hydrostatic α-elements O and Mg show a steady decline with time for all metallicities while the explosive α-elements Si, Ca and Ti are nearly constant during the thin disk epoch (ages $\lesssim 12$ Gyr). The s-process elements Y and Ba show increasing [X/Fe] with time while the r-process element Eu have the opposite trend, thus favouring a primary production from sources with a short time-delay such as core-collapse supernovae over long-delay events such as neutron star mergers.

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