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Can we really use chemical properties of red-giant stars as age indicators?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

Nadège Lagarde
Affiliation:
Institut UTINAM, CNRS UMR6213, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, OSU THETA, Observatoire de Besançon, BP 1615, 25010 Besançon Cedex, France email: [email protected]
A. C. Robin
Affiliation:
Institut UTINAM, CNRS UMR6213, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, OSU THETA, Observatoire de Besançon, BP 1615, 25010 Besançon Cedex, France email: [email protected]
C. Reylé
Affiliation:
Institut UTINAM, CNRS UMR6213, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, OSU THETA, Observatoire de Besançon, BP 1615, 25010 Besançon Cedex, France email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency, Gaia, together with forthcoming complementary surveys (CoRoT, Kepler, K2, APOGEE and Gaia-ESO), will revolutionize our understanding of the formation and history of our Galaxy, providing accurate stellar masses, radii, ages, distances, as well as chemical properties for a very large sample of stars across different Galactic stellar populations. Using improved population synthesis approach and new stellar evolution models we attempt to evaluate the possibility to derive ages of clump stars from their chemical properties. A new version of the Besançon Galaxy models (BGM) is used in which new stellar evolutionary tracks are computed from the stellar evolution code STAREVOL. The effects of mixing on chemical composition of the stellar photosphere has a significant impact on the determined stellar age from the observed [C/N] ratio. We clearly show that transport processes occurring in red-giant stars should be taken into account in the determination of ages for future Galactic archaeology studies.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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