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arxiv: astro-ph/0212029 · v1 · submitted 2002-12-02 · 🌌 astro-ph

Oxygen in the Galactic thin and thick disks

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keywords diskoxygenthickthinstarsdisksgalactichigh
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First results from a study into the abundance trends of oxygen in the Galactic thin and thick disks are presented. Oxygen abundances for 21 thick disk and 42 thin disk F and G dwarf stars based on very high resolution spectra (R\sim 215000) and high signal-to-noise (S/N>400) of the faint forbidden oxygen line at 6300 A have been determined. We find that [O/Fe] for the thick disk stars show a turn-down, i.e. the ``knee'', at [Fe/H] between -0.4 and -0.3 dex indicating the onset of SNe type Ia. The thin disk stars on the other hand show a shallow decrease going from [Fe/H] \sim -0.7 to the highest metallicities with no apparent ``knee'' present indicating a slower star formation history.

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