4 papers
Milky Way Mapper decoded abundances -- II: From patterns to paths
Melissa K. Ness, Sarah Aquilina, Jennifer Mead +15
The element abundances of Milky Way disc stars encode entangled imprints of multiple enrichment processes, making it difficult to uncover the underlying chemical evolution. Here we…
Milky Way Mapper decoded abundances -- I. Shared disc enrichment patterns
Melissa K. Ness, Sarah Aquilina, Jennifer Mead +15
Elemental abundances in the Milky Way disc trace its star-formation and enrichment history, but predicting these abundances from theory is limited by uncertain nucleosynthetic yiel…
Metallicity fluctuation statistics in the interstellar medium and young stars -- II. Elemental cross-correlations and the structure of chemical abundance space
Mark R. Krumholz, Yuan-Sen Ting, Zefeng Li +3
Observations of Milky Way stars by multiplexed spectroscopic instruments and of gas in nearby galaxies using integral field units have made it possible to measure the abundances of…
Four Elements to Rule Them All: Abundances are Rigidly Coupled in the Milky Way Disk
Jennifer Mead, Rebeca De La Garza, Melissa Ness
Chemical tagging is a central pursuit of galactic archaeology, but requires sufficiently discriminative abundances to uniquely identify sites of star formation. This task is compli…