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A Model for a Chemical Evolution of Galactic Discs.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. Chiosi
C. Chiosi*
Affiliation:
Istituto di Astronomia, Università di Padova

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In this paper we discuss a simple model for the chemical evolution of galactic disks, aiming at understanding the observed metallicity gradients in spiral galaxies. The model in corporates both the recent results of Talbot and Arnett (1975), who proposed a rate of star formation driven by the surface mass density, and those of Lynden-Bell (1975), who investigated the consequences of significant infall of gas into the system. A similar attempt was made by Chiosi (1977) for the solar neighbourhood. The result was that the metallicity distribution of nearby stars can be easily interpreted if the time scale for accretion of gas into the solar pool, or in other words the duration of the disk formation phase, is of the or der of 2-3 109 ys. Such a result is qualitatively in agreement with the models of Larson (1972), Ostricker and Thuan (1975), and also is implicit in the collapse models for the formation of disk galaxies, Larson (1976).

Type
Part I: Formation and Evolution of Disc Galaxies
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 45: Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of our Galaxy , September 1977 , pp. 61 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Geneva Observatory 1977

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