Tag: stellar age

There is no relation between age and metallicity of the stars in the Solar neighbourhood. The study: “Constraining the solar neighbourhood age-metallicity relation from white dwarf-main sequence binaries” of A. Rebassa-Mansergas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) recently appeared on MNRAS

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After the Big Bang, the Universe contained only hydrogen, helium, and a very small fraction of lithium. After that, stars, mainly the most massive ones, were responsible for the chemical enrichment of the Universe. In fact, stars produce energy by synthetizing chemical elements in their cores. These elements are then redistributed in the interstellar medium when stars end their evolution.

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Age and chemistry of the giant stars. The study: “The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating a relationship between age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters” of G. Casali (INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) recently appeared on A&A

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Despite its importance for our comprehension of stellar and galactic evolution, stellar age is one of the most elusive stellar properties. In fact, we are able to determine stellar age with a good precision only in a few cases. Typical methods to determine this quantity are: the study of the chemical abundance of Lithium, stellar kinematics, stellar pulsations analyzed by

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