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The Gaia-ESO Survey: the selection function of the Milky Way field stars

Stonkutė, E.; Koposov, S. E.; Howes, L. M.; Feltzing, S.; Worley, C. C.; Gilmore, G.; Ruchti, G. R.; Kordopatis, G.; Randich, S.; Zwitter, T.; Bensby, T.; Bragaglia, A.; Smiljanic, R.; Costado, M. T.; Tautvaišienė, G.; Casey, A. R.; Korn, A. J.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Pancino, E.; Franciosini, E.; Hourihane, A.; Jofré, P.; Lardo, C.; Lewis, J.; Magrini, L.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G. G.; Sbordone, L. (Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-04)

The Gaia-ESO Survey was designed to target all major Galactic components (i.e. bulge, thin and thick discs, halo and clusters), with the goal of constraining the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way. This paper ...

Long-term radial-velocity variations of the Sun as a star: The HARPS view

Lanza, A. F.; Molaro, P.; Monaco, L.; Haywood, R. D. (EDP SCIENCES, 2016-03)

Context. Stellar radial velocities play a fundamental role in the discovery of extrasolar planets and the measurement of their physical parameters as well as in the study of stellar physical properties. Aims. We ...

The Gaia-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem

Casey, A. R.; Ruchti, G.; Masseron, T.; Randich, S.; Gilmore, G.; Lind, K.; Kennedy, G. M.; Koposov, S. E.; Hourihane, A.; Franciosini, E.; Lewis, J. R.; Magrini, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G. G.; Worley, C. C.; Feltzing, S.; Jeffries, R. D.; Vallenari, A.; Bensby, T.; Bragaglia, A.; Flaccomio, E.; Francois, P.; Korn, A. J.; Lanzafame, A.; Pancino, E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Smiljanic, R.; Carraro, G.; Costado, M. T.; Damiani, F.; Donati, P.; Frasca, A.; Jofre, P.; Lardo, C.; de Laverny, P.; Monaco, L.; Prisinzano, L.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S. G.; Tautvaisien, G.; Zaggia, S.; Zwitter, T.; Delgado Mena, E.; Chorniy, Y.; Martell, S. L.; Silva Aguirre, V.; Miglio, A.; Chiappini, C.; Montalban, J.; Morel, T.; Valentini, M. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2016-07)

The discovery of lithium-rich giants contradicts expectations from canonical stellar evolution. Here we report on the serendipitous discovery of 20 Li-rich giants observed during the Gaia-ESO Survey, which includes the ...

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Low-α element stars in the Galactic bulge

Recio-Blanco, A.; Rojas-Arriagada, A.; de Laverny, P.; Mikolaitis, S.; Hill, V.; Zoccali, M.; Fernández-Trincado, J. G.; Robin, A. C.; Babusiaux, C.; Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Alfaro, E.; C., Allende Prieto; Bragaglia, A.; Carraro, G.; Jofré, P.; Lardo, C.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Zaggia, S. (EDP Sciences, 2017-06)

A.R.B., P.d.L., and V.H. acknowledge financial support form the ANR 14-CE33-014-01. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through ...

A spectroscopic study of the globular Cluster NGC 4147

Villanova, S.; Monaco, L.; Moni Bidin, C.; Assmann, P. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2016-08)

We present the abundance analysis for a sample of 18 red giant branch stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 4147 based on medium- and high-resolution spectra. This is the first extensive spectroscopic study of this ...

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Inhibited extra mixing in two giants of the open cluster Trumpler 20?

Smiljanic, R.; Franciosini, E.; Randich, S.; Magrini, L.; Bragaglia, A.; Pasquini, L.; Vallenari, A.; Tautvaišienė, G.; Biazzo, K.; Frasca, A.; Donati, P.; Delgado Mena, E.; Casey, A. R.; Geisler, D.; Villanova, S.; Tang, B.; Sousa, S. G.; Gilmore, G.; Bensby, T.; François, P.; Koposov, S. E.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Pancino, E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Costado, M. T.; Hourihane, A.; Lardo, C.; de Laverny, P.; Lewis, J.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G. G.; Worley, C. C.; Zaggia, S.; Martell, S. (EDP SCIENCES, 2016-06)

Aims. We report the discovery of two Li-rich giants, with A(Li) ~ 1.50, in an analysis of a sample of 40 giants of the open cluster Trumpler 20 (with turnoff mass ~1.8 M⊙). The cluster was observed in the context of the ...

Gaia-ESO Survey: Gas dynamics in the Carina nebula through optical emission lines

Damiani, F.; Bonito, R.; Magrini, L.; Prisinzano, L.; Mapelli, M.; Micela, G.; Kalari, V.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Alfaro, E.; Flaccomio, E.; Koposov, S.; Klutsch, A.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Pancino, E.; Sacco, G. G.; Bayo, A.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A. R.; Costado, M. T.; Franciosini, E.; Hourihane, A.; Lardo, C.; Lewis, J.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Worley, C.; Zaggia, S.; Zwitter, T.; Dorda, R. (EDP SCIENCES, 2016-06)

Aims. We present observations from the Gaia-ESO Survey in the lines of Hα, [N II], [S II], and He I of nebular emission in the central part of the Carina nebula. Methods. We investigate the properties of the two already ...

THE GAIA-ESO SURVEY: METAL-RICH BANANAS IN THE BULGE

Williams, Angus A.; Evans, N. W.; Molloy, Matthew; Kordopatis, Georges; Smith, M. C.; Shen, J.; Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Bensby, T.; Francois, P.; Koposov, S.E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Bayo, A.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A.; Costado, T.; Franciosini, E.; Hourihane, A.; de Laverny, P.; Lewis, J.; Lind, K.; Magrini, L.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G. G; Worley, C.; Zaggia, S.; Mikolaitis, Š. (IOP PUBLISHING, 2016-06)

We analyze the kinematics of similar to 2000 giant stars in the direction of the Galactic bulge, extracted from the Gaia-ESO survey in the region -10 degrees less than or similar to l less than or similar to 10 degrees and ...

Chemical abundances of giant stars in NGC 5053 and NGC 5634, two globular clusters associated with the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy?

Sbordone, L.; Monaco, L.; Moni Bidin, C.; Bonifacio, P.; Villanova, S.; Bellazzini, M.; Ibata, R.; Chiba, M.; Geisler, D.; Caffau, E.; Duffau, S. (EDP SCIENCES, 2015-07)

Context. The tidal disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) is producing the most prominent substructure in the Milky Way (MW) halo, the Sagittarius Stream. Aside from field stars, it is suspected ...

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Separating disk chemical substructures with cluster models⋆ Evidence of a separate evolution in the metal-poor thin disk

Rojas-Arriagada, A.; Recio-Blanco, A.; de Laverny, P.; Schultheis, M.; Guiglion, G.; Mikolaitis, Š.; Kordopatis, G.; Hill, V.; Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Bensby, T.; Koposov, S. E.; Costado, M. T.; Franciosini, E.; Hourihane, A.; Jofré, P.; Lardo, C.; Lewis, J.; Lind, K.; Magrini, L.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G. G.; Worley, C. C.; Zaggia, S.; Chiappini, C. (EDP SCIENCES, 2016-02)

Context. Recent spectroscopic surveys have begun to explore the Galactic disk system on the basis of large data samples, with spatial distributions sampling regions well outside the solar neighborhood. In this way, they ...