J/A+A/480/91    Galactic disk stars vertical distribution. IV. (Soubiran+, 2008)

Vertical distribution of Galactic disk stars. IV. AMR and AVR from clump giants. Soubiran C., Bienayme O., Mishenina T.V., Kovtyukh V.V. <Astron. Astrophys. 480, 91 (2008)> =2008A&A...480...91S 2008A&A...480...91S
ADC_Keywords: Stars, nearby ; Space velocities ; Abundances, [Fe/H] ; Stars, distances Keywords: stars: kinematics - stars: fundamental parameters - Galaxy: disk - Galaxy: structure - solar neighbourhood Abstract: We present the parameters of 891 stars, mostly clump giants, including atmospheric parameters, distances, absolute magnitudes, spatial velocities, galactic orbits and ages. One part of this sample consists of local giants, within 100pc, with atmospheric parameters either estimated from our spectroscopic observations at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio, or retrieved from the literature. The other part of the sample includes 523 distant stars, spanning distances up to 1 kpc in the direction of the North Galactic Pole, for which we have estimated atmospheric parameters from high resolution but low signal-to-noise Echelle spectra. This new sample is kinematically unbiased, with well-defined boundaries in magnitude and colours. We revisit the basic properties of the Galactic thin disk as traced by clump giants. We find the metallicity distribution to be different from that of dwarfs, with fewer metal-rich stars. We find evidence for a vertical metallicity gradient of -0.31dex/kpc and for a transition at 4-5Gyr in both the metallicity and velocities. The age - metallicity relation (AMR), which exhibits a very low dispersion, increases smoothly from 10 to 4Gyr, with a steeper increase for younger stars. The age-velocity relation (AVR) is characterized by the saturation of the V and W dispersions at 5Gyr, and continuous heating in U. Description: Data and stellar parameters compiled for the reference library used with the TGMET code in file 'table1'. Parameters of the 891 stars in file 'table2'. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 81 724 The TGMET library table2.dat 109 891 Stellar parameters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+A/398/141 : Vertical distribution of galactic disk stars (Soubiran+, 2003) III/251 : ELODIE library V3.1 (Prugniel+ 2007) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- Name HD/BD number (or Sun) 12- 19 I08 --- DataSet Dataset in ELODIE archive (YYYYMMDD) 21- 24 I04 --- Run Running number of the spectrum within dataset 26- 28 I3 --- S/N Signal-to-noise at 550nm 30- 36 F7.2 km/s HRV Heliocentric radial velocity 38- 41 I4 K Teff ? Effective temperature 43- 46 F4.2 [cm/s2] logg ? Decimal logarithm of gravity 48- 52 F5.2 [Sun] [Fe/H] ? Metallicity 54- 59 F6.3 mag VMAG ? Absolute V magnitude 61 I1 --- q_Teff [0/4] Quality flag for Teff (1) 62 I1 --- q_[Fe/H] [0/4] Quality flag for [Fe/H] (1) 63 I1 --- q_VMAG [0/4] Quality flag for VMAG (1) 65- 69 F5.3 mag B-V Johnson B-V colour 71- 81 A11 --- SpType MK spectral type -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Quality flag: 0 = data not available, 1 = poor, ... 4 = high -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 11 A11 --- Name HD or TYC number 13- 18 F6.3 mag VMAG Absolute magnitude in V 20- 24 F5.3 mag B-V Johnson B-V colour 26- 30 F5.2 [Sun] [Fe/H] Metallicity 32- 37 F6.1 km/s Uvel Galactic radial velocity (1) 39- 44 F6.1 km/s Vvel Galactic rotational velocity (1) 46- 50 F5.1 km/s Wvel Galactic vertical velocity (1) 52- 55 F4.2 kpc Rmin Perigalactic distance of galactic orbit 57- 61 F5.2 kpc Rmax Apogalactic distance of galactic orbit 63- 66 F4.2 kpc Zmax Maximum distance from galactic plane 68- 71 F4.2 -- ecc Eccentricity of galactic orbit 73- 76 I4 pc Dist Distance from the Sun 78- 82 F5.2 Gyr Age ? Age 84- 87 F4.2 Gyr e_Age ? Error on Age 89- 92 F4.2 --- Pthin Thin disk membership probability 94- 97 F4.2 --- Pthick Thick disk membership probability 99-102 F4.2 --- Pher Hercules stream membership probability 104-107 F4.2 --- Phalo Halo membership probability 109 A1 --- bin [b] Binarity flag -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): The three components of galactic velocity (U,V,W) are given with respect to the Sun, the U axis pointing towards the Galactic Center. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Caroline Soubiran, Caroline.Soubiran(at)obs.u-bordeaux1.fr References: Soubiran et al., Paper I 2003A&A...398..141S 2003A&A...398..141S, Cat. J/A+A/398/141 Siebert et al., Paper II 2003A&A...399..531S 2003A&A...399..531S Bienayme et al., Paper III 2006A&A...446..933B 2006A&A...446..933B
(End) Caroline Soubiran [LAB], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 03-Jan-2008
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