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| Paper: |
A Revision of the Solar Neighbourhood Metallicity Distribution |
| Volume: |
230, Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies |
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15 |
| Authors: |
Haywood, M. |
| Abstract: |
We have derived a new dwarf metallicity distribution, based on HIPPARCOS parallaxes and photometric metallicities. We show that: (1) Most previous metallicity distributions are biased against metal rich stars; (2) our distribution, corrected for biases, is centred on solar metallicity; (3) the percentage of `thick disk' metallicity stars ([Fe/H]<-0.5) is ~4%, compatible with other estimates of the local density of this population; (4) the observed distribution is very well fitted by a simple closed-Box model. |
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