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    The Gaia-ESO Survey: Evidence of atomic diffusion in M67?
    (Oxford University Press, 2018-07) Bertelli Motta, C.; Pasquali, A.; Richer, J.; Michaud, G.; Salaris, M.; Bragaglia, A.; Magrini, L.; Randich, S.; Grebel, E.K.; Adibekyan, V.; Blanco-Cuaresma, S.; Drazdauskas, A.; Fu, X.; Martell, S.; Tautvaišiene, G.; Gilmore, G.; Alfaro, E.J.; Bensby, T.; Flaccomio, E.; Koposov, S.E.; Korn, A.J.; Lanzafame, A.C.; Smiljanic, R.; Bayo, A.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A.R.; Costado, M.T.; Damiani, F.; Franciosini, E.; Heiter, U.; Hourihane, A.; Jofré, P.; Lardo, C.; Lewis, J.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G.G.; Sousa, S.G.; Worley, C.C.; Zaggia, S.
    Investigating the chemical homogeneity of stars born from the same molecular cloud at virtually the same time is very important for our understanding of the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium and with it the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. One major cause of inhomogeneities in the abundances of open clusters is stellar evolution of the cluster members. In this work, we investigate variations in the surface chemical composition of member stars of the old open clusterM67 as a possible consequence of atomic diffusion effects taking place during the main-sequence phase. The abundances used are obtained from high-resolution UVES/FLAMES spectra within the framework of the Gaia-ESO Survey. We find that the surface abundances of stars on the main sequence decrease with increasing mass reaching a minimum at the turn-off. After deepening of the convective envelope in subgiant branch stars, the initial surface abundances are restored.We found themeasured abundances to be consistent with the predictions of stellar evolutionary models for a cluster with the age and metallicity of M67. Our findings indicate that atomic diffusion poses a non-negligible constraint on the achievable precision of chemical tagging methods. © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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    The Gaia-ESO Survey: Insights into the inner-disc evolution from open clusters
    (EDP Sciences, 2015-08) Magrini, L.; Randich, S.; Donati, P.; Bragaglia, A.; Adibekyan, V.; Romano, D.; Smiljanic, R.; Blanco-Cuaresma, S.; Tautvaišiene, G.; Friel, E.; Overbeek, J.; Jacobson, H.; Cantat-Gaudin, T.; Vallenari, A.; Sordo, R.; Pancino, E.; Geisler, D.; San Roman, I.; Villanova, S.; Casey, A.; Hourihane, A.; Worley, C.C.; Francois, P.; Gilmore, G.; Bensby, T.; Flaccomio, E.; Korn, A.J.; Recio-Blanco Carraro, G.; Costado, M.T.; Franciosini, E.; Heiter, U.; Jofré, P.; Lardo, C.; De Laverny, P.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G.; Sousa, S.G.; Zaggia, S.
    Context. The inner disc, which links the thin disc with the bulge, has been somewhat neglected in the past because of the intrinsic difficulties in its study, among which crowding and high extinction. Open clusters located in the inner disc are among thebest tracers of its chemistry at different ages and distances. Aims. We analyse the chemical patterns of four open clusters located within 7 kpc of the Galactic centre and of field stars to infer the properties of the inner disc with the Gaia-ESO survey idr2/3 data release. Methods. We derive the parameters of the newly observed cluster, Berkeley 81, finding an age of about 1 Gyr and a Galactocentric distance of ∼5.4 kpc. We construct the chemical patterns of clusters and we compare them with those of field stars in the solar neighbourhood and in the inner-disc samples. Results. Comparing the three populations we observe that inner-disc clusters and field stars are both, on average, enhanced in [O/Fe], [Mg/Fe], and [Si/Fe]. Using the idr2/3 results of M67, we estimate the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) effect on the abundances of Mg and Si in giant stars. After empirically correcting for NLTE effects, we note that NGC 6705 and Be 81 still have a high [α/Fe]. Conclusions. The location of the four open clusters and of the field population reveals that the evolution of the metallicity [Fe/H] and of [α/Fe] can be explained within the framework of a simple chemical evolution model: both [Fe/H] and [α/Fe] of Trumpler 20 and of NGC 4815 are in agreement with expectations from a simple chemical evolution model. On the other hand, NGC 6705, and to a lesser degree Berkeley 81, have higher [α/Fe] than expected for their ages, location in the disc, and metallicity. These differences might originate from local enrichment processes as explained in the inhomogeneous evolution framework. © ESO 2015.