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CoRoT和APOGEE发现的年轻[ $α$ /Fe]增强型恒星:它们的起源是什么?

Young [$α$/Fe]-enhanced stars discovered by CoRoT and APOGEE: What is their origin?

C. Chiappini, F. Anders, T. S. Rodrigues, A. Miglio, J. Montalban, B. Mosser, L. Girardi, M. Valentini, A. Noels, T. Morel, I. Minchev, M. Steinmetz, B. X. Sant… 展开作者

C. Chiappini, F. Anders, T. S. Rodrigues, A. Miglio, J. Montalban, B. Mosser, L. Girardi, M. Valentini, A. Noels, T. Morel, I. Minchev, M. Steinmetz, B. X. Santiago, M. Schultheis, M. Martig, L. N. da Costa, M. A. G. Maia, C. Allende Prieto, R. de Assis Peralta, S. Hekker, N. Themeßl, T. Kallinger, R. A. Garcia, S. Mathur, F. Baudin, T. C. Beers, K. Cunha, P. Harding, J. Holtzman, S. Majewski, Sz. Meszaros, D. Nidever, K. Pan, R. P. Schiavon, M. D. Shetrone, D. P. Schneider, K. Stassun

摘要:

我们报告发现了一组明显年轻的CoRoT红巨星,表现出增强的[α/Fe]丰度比(由APOGEE光谱确定)相对于太阳的值。它们的存在无法用银河系的标准化学演化模型来解释,这表明银河系盘的化学富集历史更为复杂。我们在以前公布的样本中发现了类似的恒星,这些恒星的等时线年龄可以很好地获得,尽管相对数量较小,这可以解释为什么这些恒星没有得到事先的关注。在CoRoT-APOGEE(CoRoGEE)内场样本中,年轻的[alpha/Fe]富星比目前任何其他高分辨率样本都要多得多,因为只有CoRoGEE可以探索内盘区域并提供其场星的年龄。年轻的富[ $α$ /Fe]恒星的运动学性质并不明显是厚盘状的,尽管它们离银河系中平面的距离相当大。我们对这些和以前在银河系中有趣的观测结果的初步解释是,这些恒星形成于靠近银河系棒的末端,靠近共转-与其他区域相比,气体可以保持惰性更长时间。此外,这也是较老的内盘恒星世代的质量返回应该最大的地方(根据由内而外的盘形成情景),进一步稀释了原位气体。解释这些观察结果的其他可能性(例如,最近的气体吸积事件)也进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of a group of apparently young CoRoT red-giant stars exhibiting enhanced [alpha/Fe] abundance ratios (as determined from APOGEE spectra) with respect to Solar values. Their existence is not explained by standard chemical evolution models of the Milky Way, and shows that the chemical-enrichment history of the Galactic disc is more complex. We find similar stars in previously published samples for which isochrone-ages could be robustly obtained, although in smaller relative numbers, which could explain why these stars have not received prior attention. The young [alpha/Fe]-rich stars are much more numerous in the CoRoT-APOGEE (CoRoGEE) inner-field sample than in any other high-resolution sample available at present, as only CoRoGEE can explore the inner-disc regions and provide ages for its field stars. The kinematic properties of the young [$α$/Fe]-rich stars are not clearly thick-disc like, despite their rather large distances from the Galactic mid-plane. Our tentative interpretation of these and previous intriguing observations in the Milky Way is that these stars were formed close to the end of the Galactic bar, near corotation -- a region where gas can be kept inert for longer times, compared to other regions shocked more frequently by the passage of spiral arms. Moreover, that is where the mass return from older inner-disc stellar generations should be maximal (according to an inside-out disc-formation scenario), further diluting the in-situ gas. Other possibilities to explain these observations (e.g., a recent gas-accretion event) are also discussed.

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