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Milky Way中的金属丰度梯度

Metallicity gradients in the Milky Way

W. J. Maciel, R. D. D. Costa

摘要:

径向金属丰度梯度在银河系和其他几个螺旋星系的圆盘中被观测到。就银河系而言,许多天体都可以用来确定梯度,例如HII区、B星、造父变星、疏散星团和行星状星云。有几种元素可以被研究,例如光电离星云中的氧、硫、氖和氩,造父变星、疏散星团和恒星中的铁和其他元素。因此,从丰度梯度研究中推断出的观测特征数量非常大,因此,在过去几年中,它们已成为化学演化模型的主要观测约束之一。在本文中,我们提出了一些最近的观测证据的丰度梯度的基础上的几类对象。我们将集中讨论(i)梯度的大小,(ii)空间变化,(iii)丰度梯度随时间变化的证据。对最近的一些理论模型也给出了一些评论,试图突出他们的预测有关丰度梯度及其变化。

英文摘要:

Radial metallicity gradients are observed in the disks of the Milky Way and in several other spiral galaxies. In the case of the Milky Way, many objects can be used to determine the gradients, such as HII regions, B stars, Cepheids, open clusters and planetary nebulae. Several elements can be studied, such as oxygen, sulphur, neon, and argon in photoionized nebulae, and iron and other elements in cepheids, open clusters and stars. As a consequence, the number of observational characteristics inferred from the study of abundance gradients is very large, so that in the past few years they have become one of the main observational constraints of chemical evolution models. In this paper, we present some recent observational evidences of abundance gradients based on several classes of objects. We will focus on (i) the magnitude of the gradients, (ii) the space variations, and (iii) the evidences of a time variation of the abundance gradients. Some comments on recent theoretical models are also given, in an effort to highlight their predictions concerning abundance gradients and their variations.

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