The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey. VI. Galactic Chemical Gradient Analysis from APOGEE DR17

Myers, Natalie; Donor, John; Spoo, Taylor; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Cunha, Katia; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Majewski, Steven R.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Zasowski, Gail; O'Connell, Julia; Ray, Amy E.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Chiappini, Cristina; García-Hernández, D. A.; Geisler, Doug; Jönsson, Henrik; Lane, Richard R.; Longa-Peña, Penélope; Minchev, Ivan; Minniti, Dante; Nitschelm, Christian; Roman-Lopes, A.
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The Astronomical Journal

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2022
Number of authors
22
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1
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18
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15
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The goal of the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is to constrain key Galactic dynamic and chemical evolution parameters by the construction and analysis of a large, comprehensive, uniform data set of infrared spectra for stars in hundreds of open clusters. This sixth contribution from the OCCAM survey presents analysis of SDSS/APOGEE Data Release 17 (DR17) results for a sample of stars in 150 open clusters, 94 of which we designate to be "high-quality" based on the appearance of their color-magnitude diagram. We find the APOGEE DR17-derived [Fe/H] values to be in good agreement with those from previous high-resolution spectroscopic open cluster abundance studies. Using a subset of the high-quality sample, the Galactic abundance gradients were measured for 16 chemical elements, including [Fe/H], for both Galactocentric radius (R GC) and guiding center radius (R guide). We find an overall Galactic [Fe/H] versus R GC gradient of -0.073 ± 0.002 dex kpc-1 over the range of 6 > R GC < 11.5 kpc, and a similar gradient is found for [Fe/H] versus R guide. Significant Galactic abundance gradients are also noted for O, Mg, S, Ca, Mn, Na, Al, K, and Ce. Our large sample additionally allows us to explore the evolution of the gradients in four age bins for the remaining 15 elements.
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