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Ítem The Gaia -ESO Survey: Sodium and aluminium abundances in giants and dwarfs: Implications for stellar and Galactic chemical evolution(EDP Sciences, 2016-05) Smiljanic, R.; Romano, D.; Bragaglia, A.; Donati, P.; Magrini, L.; Friel, E.; Jacobson, H.; Randich, S.; Ventura, P.; Lind, K.; Bergemann, M.; Nordlander, T.; Morel, T.; Pancino, E.; Tautvaišiene, G.; Adibekyan, V.; Tosi, M.; Vallenari, A.; Gilmore, G.; Bensby, T.; François, P.; Koposov, S.; Lanzafame, A.C.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Bayo, A.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A.R.; Costado, M.T.; Franciosini, E.; Heiter, U.; Hill, V.; Hourihane, A.; Jofré, P.; Lardo, C.; De Laverny, P.; Lewis, J.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Sacco, G.G.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S.G.; Worley, C.C.; Zaggia, S.Context. Stellar evolution models predict that internal mixing should cause some sodium overabundance at the surface of red giants more massive than ∼1.5–2.0 M . The surface aluminium abundance should not be affected. Nevertheless, observational results disagree about the presence and/or the degree of Na and Al overabundances. In addition, Galactic chemical evolution models adopting different stellar yields lead to very different predictions for the behavior of [Na/Fe] and [Al/Fe] versus [Fe/H]. Overall, the observed trends of these abundances with metallicity are not well reproduced. Aims. We readdress both issues, using new Na and Al abundances determined within the Gaia-ESO Survey. Our aim is to obtain better observa tional constraints on the behavior of these elements using two samples: i) more than 600 dwarfs of the solar neighborhood and of open clusters and ii) low- and intermediate-mass clump giants in six open clusters. Methods. Abundances were determined using high-resolution UVES spectra. The individual Na abundances were corrected for nonlocal thermo dynamic equilibrium effects. For the Al abundances, the order of magnitude of the corrections was estimated for a few representative cases. For giants, the abundance trends with stellar mass are compared to stellar evolution models. For dwarfs, the abundance trends with metallicity and age are compared to detailed chemical evolution models. Results. Abundances of Na in stars with mass below ∼2.0 M , and of Al in stars below ∼3.0 M , seem to be unaffected by internal mixing processes. For more massive stars, the Na overabundance increases with stellar mass. This trend agrees well with predictions of stellar evolution ary models. For Al, our only cluster with giants more massive than 3.0 M , NGC 6705, is Al enriched. However, this might be related to the environment where the cluster was formed. Chemical evolution models that well fit the observed [Na/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] trend in solar neighborhood dwarfs cannot simultaneously explain the run of [Al/Fe] with [Fe/H], and vice versa. The comparison with stellar ages is hampered by severe uncertainties. Indeed, reliable age estimates are available for only a half of the stars of the sample. We conclude that Al is underproduced by the models, except for stellar ages younger than about 7 Gyr. In addition, some significant source of late Na production seems to be missing in the models. Either current Na and Al yields are affected by large uncertainties, and/or some important Galactic source(s) of these elements has as yet not been taken into account.Ítem 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.