Testing Chemical Tagging with LAMOST: Intrinsic Abundance Dispersion of Subgiant Stars in the Galactic Disk

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The scatter in elemental abundances among stars of similar age and metallicity reflects chemical inhomogeneity in their birth environments, making abundance scatter a key observable for chemical-tagging studies of Galactic formation and evolution. Using a large sample of subgiant stars with precise ages and elemental abundances derived from LAMOST low-resolution spectra, we investigate the intrinsic chemical abundance scatter of the low-α thin disk near the solar neighborhood (7 < R < 10 kpc). We model the abundance ratio [X/Fe], for each of the 19 elements of concern, as a function of age, [Fe/H], and [Mg/Fe], and deduce the intrinsic dispersions with a forward modelling technique. Our results confirm previous findings that the intrinsic scatters are small, typically ≲ 0.05 dex, for light elements (C, Al), α-elements (O, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti), and iron-peak elements (Mn, Ni). A dedicated analysis of M67 yields similarly small scatter values for these elements, implying limited discriminatory power from light-element abundances alone. In contrast, neutron-capture elements exhibit substantially larger scatters, typically ≳0.1 dex, which are significantly larger than those of M67 member stars (~0.07 dex). In particular, our analysis suggests that the abundance variations of individual neutron-capture elements cannot be explained by a single tracer such as [Ba/Fe]. These findings clarify the utility of neutron-capture elements for chemical tagging and highlight the potential of low-resolution spectroscopy in such studies.
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Authors Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Gang Zhao, Ruizheng Jiang, Zhuohan Li, Shaolan Bi, Meng Zhang
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1707
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1707
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