2 papers
astro-ph.GA2024
The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars are Metal-Rich
James W. Johnson, David H. Weinberg, Guillermo A. Blanc +12
Metallicities of both gas and stars decline toward large radii in spiral galaxies, a trend known as the radial metallicity gradient. We quantify the evolution of the metallicity gr…
astro-ph.GA2024
The Extremely Metal Rich Knot of Stars at the Heart of the Galaxy
Hans-Walter Rix, Vedant Chandra, Gail Zasowski +15
We show with Gaia XP spectroscopy that extremely metal-rich stars in the Milky Way (EMR; ) - but only those - are largely confined to a tight "knot" at the center…