Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
We study the effect of assuming different formation timescales for the thick and thin disks on the variation of the abundance ratios of several elements with metallicity. We show that, if the thin disk was formed on a onger timescale (≃7 Gyr) than the thick disk (≃0.8 Gyr), the abundance ratio shifts between the thick and thin disk, as a function of the metallicity, can be well explained. Moreover, these observations offer a powerful constraint on stellar yields in general (massive stars, low- and intermediate-mass stars, and SN Ia) and their dependence on metallicity.
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