Reconstructing the Milky Way chemical map with Galactic Chemical Evolution tool OMEGA+ from SDSS-MWM

Abstract

We obtain two-infall galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models simulating the chemical evolution of the Milky Way as constrained by a golden sample of $394,000$ stellar abundances of the Milky Way Mapper survey from the 19th data release of SDSS-V. The separation between the chemical thin and thick disks is defined using [Mg/M]. We use the chemical evolution environment $\text{OMEGA+}$, combined with Levenberg-Marquardt and bootstrapping. We simulate the entire Galactic disk and six galactocentric regions for a more detailed analysis of the formation of the inner, middle, and outer Galaxy. We investigate the evolution of $\alpha$, odd-Z, and iron-peak elements: 15 species altogether. The chemical thin and thick disks are separated by Mg observations, which the other $\alpha$-elements show similar trends with, while odd-Z species demonstrate different patterns as functions of metallicity. In the inward Galactic disk regions the locus of the low-Mg sequence is gradually shifted toward higher metallicity, while the high-Mg phase is less populated. The best-fit GCE models show a well-defined peak in the rate of the infalling matter as a function of the Galactic age, confirming a merger event about $10$ Gyr ago. We show that the timescale of gas accretion, the time of the second infall as well as the ratio between the surface mass densities associated to the second infall and the formation event vary with the distance from the Galactic center. The disk is assembled within a timescale of $(0.32\pm 0.02)$Gyr during a primary formation phase, then a $(0.55\pm 0.06)$Gyr-timescale, increasing accretion rate was followed by a relaxation that lasted $(2.86\pm 0.70)$Gyr, with a second peak of the infall rate at $(4.13\pm 0.19)$Gyr. Our best Galaxy evolution models are consistent with an inside-out formation scenario of the Milky Way disk, in agreement with recent chemo-dynamical simulations.

21 pages, 13 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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