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A&A
Volume 618, October 2018
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Article Number | A102 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833224 | |
Published online | 17 October 2018 |
The Gaia-ESO Survey: The N/O abundance ratio in the Milky Way⋆,⋆⋆
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INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
e-mail: laura@arcetri.astro.it
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Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
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Space Science Data Center – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Via del Politecnico SNC, 00133 Roma, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá degli studi di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio Av. 3, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, France
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Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Departamento de Astrofísica, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), ESAC Campus, Camino Bajo del Castillo s/n, 28692 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain
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Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK
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INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
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Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
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INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Via Gobetti 93/3, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Sezione Astrofisica, Universitá di Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy
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Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
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Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
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Núcleo Milenio Formación Planetaria – NPF, Universidad de Valparaíso, Av. Gran Bretaña 1111, Valparaíso, Chile
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Monash Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, 3800 Victoria, Australia
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Monash Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, 3800 Victoria, Australia
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Departamento de Didáctica, Universidad de Cádiz, 11519 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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Núcleo de Astronomía, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile
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Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Fernandez Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Received:
12
April
2018
Accepted:
17
July
2018
Context. The abundance ratio N/O is a useful tool to study the interplay of galactic processes, for example star formation efficiency, timescale of infall, and outflow loading factor.
Aims. We aim to trace log(N/O) versus [Fe/H] in the Milky Way and to compare this ratio with a set of chemical evolution models to understand the role of infall, outflow, and star formation efficiency in the building up of the Galactic disc.
Methods. We used the abundances from IDR2-3, IDR4, IDR5 data releases of the Gaia-ESO Survey both for Galactic field and open cluster stars. We determined membership and average composition of open clusters and we separated thin and thick disc field stars. We considered the effect of mixing in the abundance of N in giant stars. We computed a grid of chemical evolution models, suited to reproduce the main features of our Galaxy, exploring the effects of the star formation efficiency, infall timescale, and differential outflow.
Results. With our samples, we map the metallicity range −0.6 ≤ [Fe/H] ≤ 0.3 with a corresponding −1.2 ≤ log(N/O) ≤ −0.2, where the secondary production of N dominates. Thanks to the wide range of Galactocentric distances covered by our samples, we can distinguish the behaviour of log(N/O) in different parts of the Galaxy.
Conclusions. Our spatially resolved results allow us to distinguish differences in the evolution of N/O with Galactocentric radius. Comparing the data with our models, we can characterise the radial regions of our Galaxy. A shorter infall timescale is needed in the inner regions, while the outer regions need a longer infall timescale, coupled with a higher star formation efficiency. We compare our results with nebular abundances obtained in MaNGA galaxies, finding in our Galaxy a much wider range of log(N/O) than in integrated observations of external galaxies of similar stellar mass, but similar to the ranges found in studies of individual H II regions.
Key words: Galaxy: abundances / open clusters and associations: general / Galaxy: disk
Based on observations collected with the FLAMES instrument at VLT/UT2 telescope (Paranal Observatory, ESO, Chile), for the Gaia-ESO Large Public Spectroscopic Survey (188.B-3002, 193.B-0936).
Full Table A.1 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/618/A102
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