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Constraining SN Ia Progenitors from the Observed Fe-peak Elemental Abundances in the Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Satellites (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Alexander, R., & Vincenzo, F. Constraining SN Ia Progenitors from the Observed Fe-peak Elemental Abundances in the Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Satellites

Chemical abundances of iron-peak elements in the red giants of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFD) and dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) are among the best diagnostics in the cosmos to probe the origin of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). We incorporate metal... Read More about Constraining SN Ia Progenitors from the Observed Fe-peak Elemental Abundances in the Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Satellites.

CLASSY IX: The Chemical Evolution of the Ne, S, Cl, and Ar Elements (2024)
Journal Article
Arellano-Córdova, K., Berg, D., Mingozzi, M., James, B., Rogers, N., Skillman, E., …Wofford, A. (2024). CLASSY IX: The Chemical Evolution of the Ne, S, Cl, and Ar Elements. The Astrophysical journal, 968(2), Article 98. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad34cf

To study the chemical evolution across cosmic epochs, we investigate Ne, S, Cl, and Ar abundance patterns in the COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopic SurveY (CLASSY). CLASSY comprises local star-forming galaxies (0.02 < z < 0.18) with enhanced star-forma... Read More about CLASSY IX: The Chemical Evolution of the Ne, S, Cl, and Ar Elements.

The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5 (2024)
Journal Article
Rowntree, A., Singh, A., Vincenzo, F., Gibson, B. K., Gouin, C., Galárrag a-Espinosa, D., Lee, J., Kim, J., Laigle, C., Park, C., Pichon, C., Few, G., Hong, S. E., & Kim, Y. (2024). The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(4), 3858-3875. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1384

Metallicity offers a unique window into the baryonic history of the cosmos, being instrumental in probing evolutionary processes in galaxies between different cosmic environments. We aim to quantify the contribution of these environments to the scatt... Read More about The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5.

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI (2023)
Journal Article
Allende Prieto, C., Aguado, D. S., González Hernández, J. I., Rebolo, R., Najita, J., Manser, C. J., …Zou, H. (2023). GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI. The Astrophysical journal, 957(2), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acfa96

The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of the Milky W... Read More about GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI.

Inhomogeneous Galactic chemical evolution: modelling ultra-faint dwarf galaxies of the Large Magellanic Cloud (2023)
Journal Article
Alexander, R. K., Vincenzo, F., Ji, A. P., Richstein, H., Jordan, C. J., & Gibson, B. K. (2023). Inhomogeneous Galactic chemical evolution: modelling ultra-faint dwarf galaxies of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(4), 5415-5433. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1312

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are among the oldest and most metal-poor galaxies in the cosmos, observed to contain no gas and a high dark matter mass fraction. Understanding the chemical abundance dispersion in such extreme environments could she... Read More about Inhomogeneous Galactic chemical evolution: modelling ultra-faint dwarf galaxies of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Empirical constraints on the nucleosynthesis of nitrogen (2023)
Journal Article
Johnson, J. W., Weinberg, D. H., Vincenzo, F., Bird, J. C., & Griffith, E. J. (2023). Empirical constraints on the nucleosynthesis of nitrogen. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(1), 782-803. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad057

We derive empirical constraints on the nucleosynthetic yields of nitrogen by incorporating N enrichment into our previously developed and empirically tuned multizone galactic chemical evolution model. We adopt a metallicity-independent (‘primary’) N... Read More about Empirical constraints on the nucleosynthesis of nitrogen.

Chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way (2022)
Journal Article
Womack, K., Vincenzo, F., Gibson, B., Côté, B., Pignatari, M., Brinkman, H. E., …Karakas, A. (2023). Chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 1543-1556. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3180

Fluorine has many different potential sites and channels of production, making narrowing down a dominant site of fluorine production particularly challenging. In this work, we investigate which sources are the dominant contributors to the galactic fl... Read More about Chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way.

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances (2022)
Journal Article
Weinberg, D. H., Holtzman, J. A., Johnson, J. A., Hayes, C., Hasselquist, S., Shetrone, M., …Zasowski, G. (2022). Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances. The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 260(2), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac6028

We apply a novel statistical analysis to measurements of 16 elemental abundances in 34,410 Milky Way disk stars from the final data release (DR17) of APOGEE-2. Building on recent work, we fit median abundance ratio trends [X/Mg] vs. [Mg/H] with a 2-p... Read More about Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances.

CNO dredge-up in a sample of APOGEE/Kepler red giants: Tests of stellar models and Galactic evolutionary trends of N/O and C/N (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Vincenzo, F., H. Weinberg, D., Montalbán, J., Miglio, A., Khan, S., J. Griffith, E., Hasselquist, S., W. Johnson, J., A. Johnson, J., Nitschelm, C., & H. Pinsonneault, M. CNO dredge-up in a sample of APOGEE/Kepler red giants: Tests of stellar models and Galactic evolutionary trends of N/O and C/N

Surface abundances of C, N, and O in red giants are affected by processed material mixed into the stars' convective envelopes. Using a sample of $\sim 5100$ stars with elemental abundances from APOGEE and asteroseismic masses from {\it Kepler}, we te... Read More about CNO dredge-up in a sample of APOGEE/Kepler red giants: Tests of stellar models and Galactic evolutionary trends of N/O and C/N.

Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations (2022)
Journal Article
Griffith, E. J., Weinberg, D. H., Buder, S., Johnson, J. A., Johnson, J. W., & Vincenzo, F. (2022). Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations. The Astrophysical journal, 931(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5826

We investigate the [X/Mg] abundances of 16 elements for 82,910 Galactic disk stars from GALAH+ DR3. We fit the median trends of low-Ia and high-Ia populations with a two-process model, which describes stellar abundances in terms of a prompt core-coll... Read More about Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations.

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data (2022)
Journal Article
Abdurro'uf, Accetta, K., Aerts, C., Silva Aguirre, V., Ahumada, R., Ajgaonkar, N., …Zhu, K. (2022). The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data. The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 259(2), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac4414

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (M... Read More about The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data.

The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at z ∼2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation (2022)
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Hayden-Pawson, C., Curti, M., Maiolino, R., Cirasuolo, M., Belfiore, F., Cappellari, M., …Vincenzo, F. (in press). The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at z ∼2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article stac584. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac584

We present a comparison of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) in 37 high-redshift galaxies at z ∼2 taken from the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity Review (KLEVER) Survey with a comparison sample of local galaxies, taken from the Sloan Digital... Read More about The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at z ∼2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation.

APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites (2021)
Journal Article
Hasselquist, S., Hayes, C. R., Lian, J., Weinberg, D. H., Zasowski, G., Horta, D., …Vincenzo, F. (2021). APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites. The Astrophysical journal, 923(2), Article 172. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac25f9

The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed among the massive satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (MW): the Large and Small Magel... Read More about APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites.

The Impact of Black Hole Formation on Population-averaged Supernova Yields (2021)
Journal Article
Griffith, E. J., Sukhbold, T., Weinberg, D. H., Johnson, J. A., Johnson, J. W., & Vincenzo, F. (2021). The Impact of Black Hole Formation on Population-averaged Supernova Yields. The Astrophysical journal, 921, Article 73. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1bac

The landscape of black hole (BH) formation—in which massive stars explode as core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) and which implode into BHs—profoundly affects the initial-mass-function (IMF)-averaged nucleosynthetic yields of a stellar population. Buildi... Read More about The Impact of Black Hole Formation on Population-averaged Supernova Yields.

The distribution of [α/Fe] in the Milky Way disc (2021)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., H. Weinberg, D., Miglio, A., R. Lane, R., & Roman-Lopes, A. (2021). The distribution of [α/Fe] in the Milky Way disc. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 5903–5920. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2899

Using a sample of red giant stars from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Data Release 16, we infer the conditional distribution $p([\alpha/\text{Fe}]\,|\,[\text{Fe/H}])$ in the Milky Way disk for the $\alpha$-element... Read More about The distribution of [α/Fe] in the Milky Way disc.

Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models (2021)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., A. Thompson, T., H. Weinberg, D., J. Griffith, E., W. Johnson, J., & A. Johnson, J. (2021). Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(3), 3499-3507. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2828

We test the hypothesis that the observed first-peak (Sr, Y, Zr) and second-peak (Ba) s-process elemental abundances in low-metallicity Milky Way stars, and the abundances of the elements Mo and Ru, can be explained by a pervasive r-process contributi... Read More about Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models.

Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model (2021)
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Johnson, J. W., Weinberg, D. H., Vincenzo, F., Bird, J. C., Loebman, S. R., Brooks, A. M., …Griffith, E. J. (2021). Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(3), 4484-4511. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2718

We develop a hybrid model of galactic chemical evolution that combines a multiring computation of chemical enrichment with a prescription for stellar migration and the vertical distribution of stellar populations informed by a cosmological hydrodynam... Read More about Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model.

Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way (2021)
Journal Article
Montalbán, J., Mackereth, J. T., Miglio, A., Vincenzo, F., Chiappini, C., Buldgen, G., …Chaplin, W. J. (2021). Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way. Nature Astronomy, 5(7), 640-647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01347-7

The standard cosmological model predicts that galaxies are built through hierarchical assembly on cosmological timescales1,2. The Milky Way, like other disk galaxies, underwent violent mergers and accretion of small satellite galaxies in its early hi... Read More about Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way.

HAYDN: High-precision AsteroseismologY of DeNse stellar fields (2021)
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Miglio, A., Girardi, L., Grundahl, F., Mosser, B., Bastian, N., Bragaglia, A., …Vincenzo, F. (2021). HAYDN: High-precision AsteroseismologY of DeNse stellar fields. Experimental astronomy, 51(3), 963-1001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09711-1

In the last decade, the Kepler and CoRoT space-photometry missions have demonstrated the potential of asteroseismology as a novel, versatile and powerful tool to perform exquisite tests of stellar physics, and to enable precise and accurate character... Read More about HAYDN: High-precision AsteroseismologY of DeNse stellar fields.

APOGEE DR16: A multi-zone chemical evolution model for the Galactic disc based on MCMC methods (2021)
Journal Article
Spitoni, E., Verma, K., Silva Aguirre, V., Vincenzo, F., Matteucci, F., Vaičekauskaitė, B., …Calura, F. (2021). APOGEE DR16: A multi-zone chemical evolution model for the Galactic disc based on MCMC methods. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 647, Article A73. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039864

Context. The analysis of the latest release of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment project (APOGEE DR16) data suggests the existence of a clear distinction between two sequences of disc stars at different Galactocentric distanc... Read More about APOGEE DR16: A multi-zone chemical evolution model for the Galactic disc based on MCMC methods.