TY - JOUR
T1 - Abundances in the Milky Way across Five Nucleosynthetic Channels from 4 Million LAMOST Stars
AU - Wheeler, Adam
AU - Ness, Melissa
AU - Buder, Sven
AU - Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
AU - Silva, Gayandhi De
AU - Hayden, Michael
AU - Kos, Janez
AU - Lewis, Geraint F.
AU - Martell, Sarah
AU - Sharma, Sanjib
AU - Simpson, Jeffrey D.
AU - Zucker, D. B.
AU - Zwitter, Tomaž
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/20
Y1 - 2020/7/20
N2 - Large stellar surveys are revealing the chemodynamical structure of the Galaxy across a vast spatial extent. However, the many millions of low-resolution spectra observed to date are yet to be fully exploited. We employ The Cannon, a data-driven approach for estimating chemical abundances, to obtain detailed abundances from low-resolution (R = 1800) LAMOST spectra, using the GALAH survey as our reference. We deliver five (for dwarfs) or six (for giants) estimated abundances representing five different nucleosynthetic channels, for 3.9 million stars, to a precision of 0.05-0.23 dex. Using wide binary pairs, we demonstrate that our abundance estimates provide chemical discriminating power beyond metallicity alone. We show the coverage of our catalog with radial, azimuthal and dynamical abundance maps and examine the neutron capture abundances across the disk and halo, which indicate different origins for the in situ and accreted halo populations. LAMOST has near-complete Gaia coverage and provides an unprecedented perspective on chemistry across the Milky Way.
AB - Large stellar surveys are revealing the chemodynamical structure of the Galaxy across a vast spatial extent. However, the many millions of low-resolution spectra observed to date are yet to be fully exploited. We employ The Cannon, a data-driven approach for estimating chemical abundances, to obtain detailed abundances from low-resolution (R = 1800) LAMOST spectra, using the GALAH survey as our reference. We deliver five (for dwarfs) or six (for giants) estimated abundances representing five different nucleosynthetic channels, for 3.9 million stars, to a precision of 0.05-0.23 dex. Using wide binary pairs, we demonstrate that our abundance estimates provide chemical discriminating power beyond metallicity alone. We show the coverage of our catalog with radial, azimuthal and dynamical abundance maps and examine the neutron capture abundances across the disk and halo, which indicate different origins for the in situ and accreted halo populations. LAMOST has near-complete Gaia coverage and provides an unprecedented perspective on chemistry across the Milky Way.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a46
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a46
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 898
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 58
ER -