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arXiv 2011.13745astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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GALAH巡天:化学时钟

The GALAH Survey: Chemical Clocks

Michael R. Hayden, Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Lorenzo Spina, Sven Buder, Martin Asplund, Andrew R. Casey, Gayandhi M. De Silva, Valentina D'Orazi, Ken … 展开作者

Michael R. Hayden, Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Lorenzo Spina, Sven Buder, Martin Asplund, Andrew R. Casey, Gayandhi M. De Silva, Valentina D'Orazi, Ken C. Freeman, Janez Kos, Geraint F. Lewis, Jane Lin, Karin Lind, Sarah L. Martell, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Jeffrey D. Simpson, Daniel B. Zucker, Tomaz Zwitter, Boquan Chen, Klemen Cotar, Diane Feuillet, Jonti Horner, Meridith Joyce, Thomas Nordlander, Dennis Stello, Thorsten Tepper-Garcia, Yuan-sen Ting, Purmortal Wang, Rob Wittenmyer

AI总结:

本研究利用GALAH DR3巡天中25万颗恒星的化学丰度,通过XGBoost机器学习算法估算恒星年龄(精度达1-2 Gyr),复现了银盘年龄-运动学趋势,为银盘演化研究及未来光谱巡天提供了新路径。

摘要:

既往研究表明,恒星的元素丰度与其年龄和金属丰度直接相关。基于这一认知,我们仅利用GALAH DR3(GALAH巡天第三次数据发布)中25万颗恒星的总金属丰度和化学丰度,推导了该样本恒星的年龄。我们采用机器学习算法XGBoost估算恒星年龄,以具有精确年龄的主序拐点星作为输入训练集。研究发现,使用该方法得到的大部分GALAH DR3样本恒星年龄,误差在10-20亿年(1-2 Gyr)范围内。借助这些年龄数据,我们复现了近期多项关于近邻盘年龄-运动学趋势的研究结果,包括太阳邻域的年龄-速度弥散关系,以及通过Gaia和GALAH发现的银盘更大尺度的全局速度弥散关系。仅依靠化学丰度就能确定恒星可靠年龄这一结论,对银河系未来研究以及即将开展的光谱巡天项目具有深远意义。这些结果显示,在同一诞生半径处,恒星的化学丰度差异相当小,这意味着以我们目前的元素丰度测量精度,要实现将恒星直接化学溯源至其诞生星团的强化学标记,可能难度较大。我们的研究结果凸显了光谱巡天的必要性:需为尽可能多的核合成产物位点提供精确丰度数据,从而能够直接通过恒星的化学丰度估算其可靠年龄。应用本文提出的方法为银盘运动学结构与演化研究打开了新的大门,因为我们有望估算现有光谱巡天中大部分恒星的年龄。这将产生数百万颗具有可靠年龄测定的恒星样本,从而能够对银盘中的各类运动学过程(例如径向迁移的效率和时标)施加精确约束。

英文摘要:

Previous studies have found that the elemental abundances of a star correlate directly with its age and metallicity. Using this knowledge, we derive ages for a sample of 250,000 stars taken from GALAH DR3 using only their overall metallicity and chemical abundances. Stellar ages are estimated via the machine learning algorithm $XGBoost$, using main sequence turnoff stars with precise ages as our input training set. We find that the stellar ages for the bulk of the GALAH DR3 sample are accurate to 1-2 Gyr using this method. With these ages, we replicate many recent results on the age-kinematic trends of the nearby disk, including the age-velocity dispersion relationship of the solar neighborhood and the larger global velocity dispersion relations of the disk found using $Gaia$ and GALAH. The fact that chemical abundances alone can be used to determine a reliable age for a star have profound implications for the future study of the Galaxy as well as upcoming spectroscopic surveys. These results show that the chemical abundance variation at a given birth radius is quite small, and imply that strong chemical tagging of stars directly to birth clusters may prove difficult with our current elemental abundance precision. Our results highlight the need of spectroscopic surveys to deliver precision abundances for as many nucleosynthetic production sites as possible in order to estimate reliable ages for stars directly from their chemical abundances. Applying the methods outlined in this paper opens a new door into studies of the kinematic structure and evolution of the disk, as ages may potentially be estimated for a large fraction of stars in existing spectroscopic surveys. This would yield a sample of millions of stars with reliable age determinations, and allow precise constraints to be put on various kinematic processes in the disk, such as the efficiency and timescales of radial migration.

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