The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VIII. Galactic Chemical Gradient and Azimuthal Analysis from SDSS/MWM DR19
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| author | Otto, Jonah M. Frinchaboy, Peter M Myers, Natalie R. Johnson, James W. Donor, John Hossain, Ahabar Mészáros, Szabolcs Walace, Halley Cunha, Katia Bhattarai, Binod Zasowski, Gail Loebman, Sarah R. Wiggins, Alessa I. Price-Whelan, Adrian M. Spoo, Taylor Souto, Diogo Bizyaev, Dmitry Pan, Kaike Saydjari, Andrew K. |
| author_facet | Otto, Jonah M. Frinchaboy, Peter M Myers, Natalie R. Johnson, James W. Donor, John Hossain, Ahabar Mészáros, Szabolcs Walace, Halley Cunha, Katia Bhattarai, Binod Zasowski, Gail Loebman, Sarah R. Wiggins, Alessa I. Price-Whelan, Adrian M. Spoo, Taylor Souto, Diogo Bizyaev, Dmitry Pan, Kaike Saydjari, Andrew K. |
| contents | The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey seeks to curate a large, comprehensive, uniform dataset of open clusters and member stars to constrain key Galactic parameters. This eighth entry from the OCCAM survey, based on the newly released SDSS-V/MWM Data Release 19 (DR19), has established a sample of 164 high quality open clusters that are used to constrain the radial and azimuthal gradients of the Milky Way. The DR19 cluster sample [Fe/H] abundances are roughly consistent with measurements from other large-scale spectroscopic surveys. However, the gradients we calculate deviate considerably for some elements. We find an overall linear Galactic radial [Fe/H] gradient of $-0.075 \pm 0.006$ dex kpc$^{-1}$ using the cluster's current Galactocentric Radius ($R_{GC}$) and a gradient of $-0.068 \pm 0.005$ dex kpc$^-1$ with respect to the cluster's guiding center radius. We do not find strong evidence for significant evolution of the differential element gradients ([X/Fe]) investigated here (O, Mg, Si, S, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Na, Al, K, Ce, Nd). For the first time using the OCCAM sample we have sufficient numbers of clusters to investigate Galactic azimuthal variations. In this work, we do find evidence of azimuthal variations in the measured radial abundance gradient in the Galactic disk using our open cluster sample. |
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| spellingShingle | The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VIII. Galactic Chemical Gradient and Azimuthal Analysis from SDSS/MWM DR19 Otto, Jonah M. Frinchaboy, Peter M Myers, Natalie R. Johnson, James W. Donor, John Hossain, Ahabar Mészáros, Szabolcs Walace, Halley Cunha, Katia Bhattarai, Binod Zasowski, Gail Loebman, Sarah R. Wiggins, Alessa I. Price-Whelan, Adrian M. Spoo, Taylor Souto, Diogo Bizyaev, Dmitry Pan, Kaike Saydjari, Andrew K. Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey seeks to curate a large, comprehensive, uniform dataset of open clusters and member stars to constrain key Galactic parameters. This eighth entry from the OCCAM survey, based on the newly released SDSS-V/MWM Data Release 19 (DR19), has established a sample of 164 high quality open clusters that are used to constrain the radial and azimuthal gradients of the Milky Way. The DR19 cluster sample [Fe/H] abundances are roughly consistent with measurements from other large-scale spectroscopic surveys. However, the gradients we calculate deviate considerably for some elements. We find an overall linear Galactic radial [Fe/H] gradient of $-0.075 \pm 0.006$ dex kpc$^{-1}$ using the cluster's current Galactocentric Radius ($R_{GC}$) and a gradient of $-0.068 \pm 0.005$ dex kpc$^-1$ with respect to the cluster's guiding center radius. We do not find strong evidence for significant evolution of the differential element gradients ([X/Fe]) investigated here (O, Mg, Si, S, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Na, Al, K, Ce, Nd). For the first time using the OCCAM sample we have sufficient numbers of clusters to investigate Galactic azimuthal variations. In this work, we do find evidence of azimuthal variations in the measured radial abundance gradient in the Galactic disk using our open cluster sample. |
| title | The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VIII. Galactic Chemical Gradient and Azimuthal Analysis from SDSS/MWM DR19 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07264 |