Vertical and radial metallicity gradients in high latitude galactic fields with SDSS

Abstract

We used the ugr magnitudes of 1,437,467 F-G type main-sequence stars with metal abundance -2<[Fe/H]<+0.2 dex and estimated radial and vertical metallicity gradients for high Galactic-latitude fields (b>50) of the Milky Way Galaxy. The radial metallicity gradient d[Fe/H]/dR=-0.042(0.011) dex/kpc estimated for the stars with 1.31<z<=1.74 kpc is attributed to the thin-disc population. While, the radial gradients evaluated for stars at higher vertical distances are close to zero indicating that the thick disc and halo have not undergone a radial collapse phase at least at high Galactic latitudes. The vertical metallicity gradients estimated for stars with three different Galactic latitudes, 50<b <=65, 65<b<=80 and 80<b<=90 do not show a strong indication for Galactic latitude dependence of our gradients. The thin disc, 0.5<z<=2 kpc, with a vertical metallicity gradient d[Fe/H]/dz= -0.308(0.018) dex/kpc, is dominant only in galactocentric distance (R) interval 6<R<=10 kpc, while the thick disc (2<z<=5 kpc) could be observed in the intervals 6<R<=10 and 10<R<=15 kpc with compatible vertical metallicity gradients, i.e. d[Fe/H]/dz= -0.164(0.014) dex/kpc and d[Fe/H]/dz= -0.172(0.016) dex/kpc. Five vertical metallicity gradients are estimated for the halo (z>5 kpc) in three R distance intervals, 6<R<=10, 10<R<=15 and 15<R<=20 kpc. The first one corresponding to the interval 6<R<=10 kpc is equal to d[Fe/H]/dz= -0.023(0.006) dex/kpc, while the others at larger R distances are close to zero. We derived synthetic vertical metallicity gradients for 2,230,167 stars and compared them with the observed ones. There is a good agreement between the two sets of vertical metallicity gradients for the thin disc, while they are different for the thick disc. For the halo, the conspicuous difference corresponds to the R distance interval 6<R<=10 kpc, while they are compatible at higher R distance intervals.

arXiv comment30 pages, 9 figures and 4 tables, accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research

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