Age-resolved chemistry of red giants in the solar neighbourhood
Diane K. Feuillet, Jo Bovy, Jon Holtzman, David H. Weinberg, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Fred R. Hearty, Steven R. Majewski, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Jan Rybizki, Olga Zamora
In the age of high-resolution spectroscopic stellar surveys of the Milky Way, the number of stars with detailed abundances of multiple elements is rapidly increasing. These elemental abundances are directly influenced by the evolutionary history of the Galaxy, but this can be difficult to interpret without an absolute timeline of the abundance enrichment. We present age-abundance trends for [M/H], [α/M], and 17 individual elements using a sample of 721 solar neighbourhood Hipparcos red giant stars observed by APOGEE. These age trends are determined through a Bayesian hierarchical modelling method presented by Feuillet et al. (2016). We confirm that the [α/M]- age relation in the solar neighbourhood is steep and relatively narrow (0.20 dex age dispersion), as are the [O/M]- and [Mg/M]-age relations. The age trend of [C/N] is steep and smooth, consistent with stellar evolution. The [M/H]-age relation has a mean age dispersion of 0.28 dex and a complex overall structure. The oldest stars in our sample are those with the lowest and highest metallicities, while the youngest stars are those with solar metallicity. These results provide strong constraints on theoretical models of Galactic chemical evolution (GCE). We compare them to the predictions of one-zone GCE mod- els and multi-zone mixtures, both analytic and numerical. These comparisons support the hypothesis that the solar neighbourhood is composed of stars born at a range of Galactocentric radii, and that the most metal-rich stars likely migrated from a region with earlier and more rapid star formation such as the inner Galaxy.
3D radiative hydrodynamic simulations of protostellar collapse with H-C-O dynamical chemistry
将协同演化化学、流体动力学和辐射转移结合起来是恒星形成研究的重要一步。它既可以更好地与观测联系起来，又可以对坍缩核心中的磁耗散进行自洽监测。我们的目标是遵循一个减少气体颗粒化学网络的坍塌致密核心的化学动力学演化。本文给出了1 M $_\odot$孤立致密核坍缩的辐射流体动力学（RHD）模拟结果.物理设置包括RHD和化学网络的动力学演化。为了进行这些模拟，我们合并了多维自适应网格细化代码RAMSES和热化学巴黎达勒姆冲击代码。我们模拟了第一个流体静力核心（FHSC）的形成和56个物种的共同进化，主要描述H-C-O化学。进行准确的基准测试，测试减少化学网络对一个完善的复杂网络。我们表明，通过使用一组紧凑的反应，可以密切配合CO丰度与一个更复杂的网络的结果。我们的主要结果是：（a）我们发现，气体-颗粒化学后处理可以导致一个数量级的CO气相丰度比动力学化学低，最强的效果在等温阶段的崩溃。(b)对于我们选择的参数，自由落体时间对化学丰度的影响很小。(c)动态化学演化需要描述的CO气相丰度，以及CO冰的形成大于1 $μ$ m的平均晶粒尺寸。(d)此外，尘埃的平均粒径和粒径分布有很强的影响化学丰度，从而对电离度和磁耗散。我们的结论是，尘埃颗粒的增长崩溃模拟耦合崩溃与化学一样重要。
