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APOGEE DR14/DR15 Abundances in the Inner Milky Way
Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA..
Univ Cote dAzur, Observ Cote dAzur, Lab Lagrange, F-06304 Nice, France..
New Mexico State Univ, Dept Astron, Las Cruces, NM 88001 USA..
Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85719 USA.;Observ Nacl, BR-20921400 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil..
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2019 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 870, no 2, article id 138Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present an overview of the distributions of 11 elemental abundances in the Milky Way's (MW) inner regions, as traced by APOGEE stars released as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release. 14/15 (DR14/DR15), including O, Mg, Si, Ca, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Na, Al, and K. This sample spans similar to 4000 stars with R-GC <= 4.0 kpc, enabling the most comprehensive study to date of these abundances and their variations within the innermost few kiloparsecs of the MW. We describe the observed abundance patterns ([X/Fe]-[Fe/H]), compare to previous literature results and to patterns in stars at the solar Galactocentric radius (R-GC), and discuss possible trends with DR14/DR15 effective temperatures. We find that the position of the [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] "knee" is nearly constant with R-GC, indicating a well-mixed star-forming medium or high levels of radial migration in the early inner Galaxy. We quantify the linear correlation between pairs of elements in different subsamples of stars and find that these relationships vary; some abundance correlations are very similar between the alpha-rich and alpha-poor stars, but others differ significantly, suggesting variations in the metallicity dependencies of certain supernova yields. These empirical trends will form the basis for more detailed future explorations and for the refinement of model comparison metrics. That the inner MW abundances appear dominated by a single chemical evolutionary track and that they extend to such high metallicities underscore the unique importance of this part of the Galaxy for constraining the ingredients of chemical evolution modeling and for improving our understanding of the evolution of the Galaxy as a whole.

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Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2019. Vol. 870, no 2, article id 138
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Galaxy: abundances, Galaxy: bulge, stars: abundances
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-65200DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaeff4ISI: 000456063900019Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85060239851OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-65200DiVA, id: diva2:1829630
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