To understand the formation and evolution of the Milky Way disk, we must connect its current properties to its past. We explore hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to investigate how the chemical abundances of stars might be linked to their origins. Using hierarchical clustering of abundance measurements in two Milky Way–like simulations with distributed and steady star formation histories, we find that groups of chemically similar stars comprise different groups in birth place (
The Milky Way (MW) stellar disk has both a thin and a thick component. The thin disk is composed mostly of younger stars (≲8 Gyr) with a lower abundance of
- Award ID(s):
- 1908331
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10440378
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Volume:
- 953
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0004-637X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: Article No. 128
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- ["Article No. 128"]
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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