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On the chemical evolution of the Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

Nikos Prantzos
Nikos Prantzos*
Affiliation:
IAP, 98bis Bd Arago, 75013 Paris; email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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I discuss three different topics concerning the chemical evolution of the Milky Way (MW). 1) The metallicity distribution of the MW halo; it is shown that this distribution can be analytically derived in the framework of the hierarchical merging scenario for galaxy formation, assuming that the component sub-haloes had chemical properties similar to those of the progenitors of satellite galaxies of the MW. 2) The age-metallicity relationship (AMR) in the solar neighborhood; I argue for caution in deriving from data with important uncertainties (such as the age uncertainties in the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey) a relationship between average metallicity and age: derived relationships are shown to be systematically flatter than the true ones and should not be directly compared to models. 3) The radial mixing of stars in the disk, which may have important effects on various observables (scatter in AMR, extension of the tails of the metallicity distribution, flatenning of disk abundance profiles). Recent SPH + N-body simulations find considerable radial mixing, but only comparison to observations will ultimately determine the extent of that mixing.

Keywords

Galaxy: evolution – Galaxy: disk – Galaxy: halo – Galaxy: abundances
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Issue S254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context , June 2008 , pp. 381 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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