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Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Galaxy's Thick Disk Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Mary-Margaret Brewer  and
Bruce W. Carney
Mary-Margaret Brewer
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255, USA
Bruce W. Carney*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255, USA
*
2E-mail: bruce@physics.unc.edu
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Abstract

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We discuss our work on chemical abundance ratios of stars belonging to the thick-disk and thin-disk stellar populations. We discuss the selection of stars, and show that the two samples of stars have different [α/Fe] versus [Fe/H] behaviour.

Keywords

Galaxy: abundancesGalaxy: diskGalaxy: evolution
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 21 , Issue 2: The Fifth Workshop on Galactic Chemodynamics , 2004 , pp. 134 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2004

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