The Gaia -ESO survey: separating disk chemical substructures with cluster modelsā: evidence of a separate evolution in the metal-poor thin disk
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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 provide valuable information for testing spatial
and temporal variations of disk structure kinematics and chemical evolution.
Aims. The main purposes of this study are to demonstrate the usefulness of a rigorous mathematical approach to separate substructures
of a stellar sample in the abundance-metallicity plane, and provide new evidence with which to characterize the nature of the metal poor end of the thin disk sequence.
Methods. We used a Gaussian mixture model algorithm to separate in the [Mg/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] plane a clean disk star subsample
(essentially at RGC < 10 kpc) from the Gaia-ESO survey (GES) internal data release 2 (iDR2). We aim at decomposing it into data
groups highlighting number density and/or slope variations in the abundance-metallicity plane. An independent sample of disk red
clump stars from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) was used to cross-check the identified
features.
Results. We find that the sample is separated into five groups associated with major Galactic components; the metal-rich end of
the halo, the thick disk, and three subgroups for the thin disk sequence. This is confirmed with the sample of red clump stars from
APOGEE. The three thin disk groups served to explore this sequence in more detail. The two metal-intermediate and metal-rich
groups of the thin disk decomposition ([Fe/H] > ā0.25 dex) highlight a change in the slope at solar metallicity. This holds true at
different radial regions of the Milky Way. The distribution of Galactocentric radial distances of the metal-poor part of the thin disk
([Fe/H] < ā0.25 dex) is shifted to larger distances than those of the more metal-rich parts. Moreover, the metal-poor part of the
thin disk presents indications of a scale height intermediate between those of the thick and the rest of the thin disk, and it displays
higher azimuthal velocities than the latter. These stars might have formed and evolved in parallel and/or dissociated from the inside out formation taking place in the internal thin disk. Their enhancement levels might be due to their origin from gas pre-enriched by
outflows from the thick disk or the inner halo. The smooth trends of their properties (their spatial distribution with respect to the plane,
in particular) with [Fe/H] and [Mg/Fe] suggested by the data indicates a quiet dynamical evolution, with no relevant merger events.
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Galaxy: Formation, Galaxy: Abundances, Galaxy: Stellar Content, Stars: Abundances
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Astronomy and Astrophysics. Volume 586. 1 February 2016. Article number A39
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DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526969