Modelling the chemical evolution of the Milky Way
Francesca Matteucci
TL;DR
This paper reviews how models of the Milky Way's chemical evolution compare with observational data, highlighting their predictive capabilities and limitations in understanding Galactic formation and stellar processes.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of Galactic archaeology, emphasizing the constraints on stellar nucleosynthesis and formation timescales derived from model-data comparisons.
Findings
Models help constrain stellar nucleosynthesis processes.
Comparison with data informs Galactic formation timescales.
Limitations of models are discussed.
Abstract
In this review I will discuss the comparison between model results and observational data for the Milky Way, the predictive power of such models as well as their limits. Such a comparison, known as Galactic archaeology, allows us to impose constraints on stellar nucleosynthesis and timescales of formation of the various Galactic components (halo, bulge, thick disk and thin disk).
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