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Table 5

Vertical abundance gradients for Fe, Mg, Al, Si, and Ti elements measured for the RC RAVE sample divided in α-poor (top) and α-rich (bottom) sub-samples.


α-poor sample
0.0 < | Z | (kpc) ≤ 0.4 + 0.004 ± 0.025 + 0.025 ± 0.023 + 0.071 ± 0.029 −0.048 ± 0.030 + 0.095 ± 0.023
0.4 < | Z | (kpc) ≤ 0.8 −0.028 ± 0.028 + 0.009 ± 0.026 + 0.004 ± 0.033 −0.083 ± 0.033 + 0.103 ± 0.024
0.8 < | Z | (kpc) ≤ 1.2 −0.085 ± 0.076 −0.131 ± 0.064 −0.061 ± 0.081 −0.153 ± 0.086 + 0.029 ± 0.062
1.2 < | Z | (kpc) < 2.0 −0.141 ± 0.090 −0.084 ± 0.098 + 0.108 ± 0.143 −0.066 ± 0.120 −0.121 ± 0.085

α-rich sample
0.0 < | Z | (kpc) ≤ 0.4 −0.312 ± 0.113 −0.189 ± 0.114 −0.051 ± 0.134 −0.243 ± 0.111 + 0.077 ± 0.129
0.4 < | Z | (kpc) ≤ 0.8 + 0.015 ± 0.092 −0.004 ± 0.089 + 0.004 ± 0.115 + 0.061 ± 0.094 + 0.062 ± 0.104
0.8 < | Z | (kpc) ≤ 1.2 + 0.141 ± 0.120 + 0.192 ± 0.112 −0.077 ± 0.174 + 0.071 ± 0.144 + 0.133 ± 0.125
1.2 < | Z | (kpc) < 2.0 −0.073 ± 0.088 −0.016 ± 0.108 + 0.015 ± 0.130 −0.094 ± 0.150 + 0.072 ± 0.131

Notes. Only stars in the range 7.5 R (kpc) < 8.5 are considered. The gradients are expressed as dex kpc-1 for four ranges of | Z |. Uncertainties of 68% confidence are obtained with the bootstrap method and represent the internal errors.

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