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The Gaia-ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys (2023)
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Nepal, S., Guiglion, G., de Jong, R., Valentini, M., Chiappini, C., Steinmetz, M., …Zaggia, S. (2023). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244765

Context. Originating from several sources (Big Bang, stars, cosmic rays) and being strongly depleted during stellar lifetime, the lithium element is of great interest as its chemical evolution in the Milky Way is not yet well understood. To help cons... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium measurements and new curves of growth (2022)
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Jeffries. (2022). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium measurements and new curves of growth. Astronomy & Astrophysics,

Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey that was carried out using the multi-object FLAMES spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. The survey provides accurate radial velocities, stellar parameters, and elemental a... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium measurements and new curves of growth.

The structure and 3D kinematics of vela OB2 (2022)
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Armstrong, J. J., Wright, N. J., Jeffries, R. D., Jackson, R. J., & Cantat-Gaudin, T. (2022). The structure and 3D kinematics of vela OB2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(4), 5704 - 5720. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3101

The kinematics of stars in OB associations can provide insights into their formation, dynamical evolution, and eventual fate. The low-mass stellar content of OB associations are sufficiently numerous as to provide a detailed sampling of their kinemat... Read More about The structure and 3D kinematics of vela OB2.

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products star (2022)
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Gilmore, G., Randich, S., Worley, C., Hourihane, A., Gonneau, A., Sacco, G., …Zorec, J. (2022). The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products star. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 66, Article A120. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243134

Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100 000 stars, including large representative samples of the stellar populations in the Galaxy, and a w... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products star.

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy (2022)
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Wright, Jeffries, Abbas, U., Borsen-Koch, V., Villanova, S., Wright, N., …Bragaglia, A. (2022). The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243141

Context. In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances for large samples of Galactic stars, complementing Gaia astrom... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy.

Low mass young stars in the Milky Way unveiled by DBSCAN and Gaia EDR3. Mapping the star forming regions within 1.5 Kpc (2022)
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Prisinzano, L., Damiani, F., Sciortino, S., Flaccomio, E., Guarcello, M., Micela, G., …Alcalá, J. (2022). Low mass young stars in the Milky Way unveiled by DBSCAN and Gaia EDR3. Mapping the star forming regions within 1.5 Kpc. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243580

With an unprecedented astrometric and photometric data precision, Gaia EDR3 gives us, for the first time, the opportunity to systematically detect and map in the optical bands, the low mass populations of the star forming regions (SFRs) in the Milky... Read More about Low mass young stars in the Milky Way unveiled by DBSCAN and Gaia EDR3. Mapping the star forming regions within 1.5 Kpc.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Constraining evolutionary models and ages for young low mass stars with measurements of lithium depletion and rotation (2022)
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Jeffries. (2022). The Gaia-ESO survey: Constraining evolutionary models and ages for young low mass stars with measurements of lithium depletion and rotation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 5727-5751. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1245

A growing disquiet has emerged in recent years that standard stellar models are at odds with observations of the colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and lithium depletion patterns of pre-main sequence stars in clusters. In this work we select 1246 high... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Constraining evolutionary models and ages for young low mass stars with measurements of lithium depletion and rotation.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Chemical tagging in the thin disk. Open clusters blindly recovered in the elemental abundance space (2022)
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Spina, L., Magrini, L., Sacco, G. G., Casali, G., Vallenari, A., Tautvaisiene, G., …Zaggia, S. (2022). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Chemical tagging in the thin disk. Open clusters blindly recovered in the elemental abundance space. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 668, Article ARTN A16. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243316

Context. The chemical makeup of a star provides the fossil information of the environment where it formed. Under this premise, it should be possible to use chemical abundances to tag stars that formed within the same stellar association. This idea -... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Chemical tagging in the thin disk. Open clusters blindly recovered in the elemental abundance space.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Target selection of open cluster stars (2022)
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Bragaglia, A., Alfaro, E., Flaccomio, E., Blomme, R., Donati, P., Costado, M., …Vink, J. (in press). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Target selection of open cluster stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 659, Article A200. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142674

Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a public, high-resolution spectroscopic survey, conducted with the multi-object spectrograph Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph (FLAMES) on the Very Large Telescope (European Southern Observatory, ESO,... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Target selection of open cluster stars.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 63 open and 7 globular clusters from 3D kinematics (2021)
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Wright, & Jeffries. (2021). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 63 open and 7 globular clusters from 3D kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3032

Spectroscopy from the final internal data release of the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) has been combined with Gaia EDR3 to assign membership probabilities to targets observed towards 63 Galactic open clusters and 7 globular clusters. The membership probabili... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 63 open and 7 globular clusters from 3D kinematics.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Mixing processes in low-mass stars traced by lithium abundance in cluster and field stars (2021)
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Jeffries. (2021). The Gaia-ESO survey: Mixing processes in low-mass stars traced by lithium abundance in cluster and field stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140935

We aim to constrain the mixing processes in low-mass stars by investigating the behaviour of the Li surface abundance after the main sequence. We take advantage of the data from the sixth internal data release of Gaia-ESO, idr6, and from the Gaia Ear... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Mixing processes in low-mass stars traced by lithium abundance in cluster and field stars.

The Gaia-ESO survey: A lithium depletion boundary age for NGC 2232 (2021)
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Binks, A. S., Jeffries, R. D., Jackson, R. J., Franciosini, E., Sacco, G. G., Bayo, A., …Zaggia, S. (2021). The Gaia-ESO survey: A lithium depletion boundary age for NGC 2232. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(1), 1280-1292

Astrometry and photometry from {\it Gaia} and spectroscopic data from the {\it Gaia}-ESO Survey (GES) are used to identify the lithium depletion boundary (LDB) in the young cluster NGC 2232. A specialised spectral line analysis procedure was used to... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: A lithium depletion boundary age for NGC 2232.

The effects of rotation on the lithium depletion of G- and K-dwarfs in Messier 35 (2020)
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Jeffries, R. D., Jackson, R. J., Sun, Q., & Deliyannis, C. P. (2021). The effects of rotation on the lithium depletion of G- and K-dwarfs in Messier 35. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(1), 1158-1177. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3141

New fibre spectroscopy and radial velocities from the WIYN telescope are used to measure photospheric lithium in 242 high-probability, zero-age-main-sequence (ZAMS) F- to K-type members of the rich cluster M35. Combining these with published rotation... Read More about The effects of rotation on the lithium depletion of G- and K-dwarfs in Messier 35.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Galactic evolution of lithium at high metallicity (2020)
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Jeffries, R., & Wright, N. J. (2020). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Galactic evolution of lithium at high metallicity. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038688

Context. Reconstructing the Galactic evolution of lithium (Li) is the main tool used to constrain the source(s) of Li enrichment in the Galaxy. Recent results have suggested a decline in Li at supersolar metallicities, which may indicate reduced prod... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Galactic evolution of lithium at high metallicity.

The Gaia-ESO survey: the non-universality of the age-chemical-clocks-metallicity relations in the Galactic disc (2020)
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Jeffries. (2020). The Gaia-ESO survey: the non-universality of the age-chemical-clocks-metallicity relations in the Galactic disc. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038055

Context. In the era of large spectroscopic surveys, massive databases of high-quality spectra coupled with the products of the Gaia satellite provide tools to outline a new picture of our Galaxy. In this framework, an important piece of information i... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: the non-universality of the age-chemical-clocks-metallicity relations in the Galactic disc.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 32 open clusters from 3D kinematics (2020)
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Jeffries, & Wright. (2020). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 32 open clusters from 3D kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4701-4716. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1749

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) observed many open clusters as part of its programme to spectroscopically characterise the various Milky Way populations. GES spectroscopy and Gaia astrometry from its second data release are used here to assign membership p... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 32 open clusters from 3D kinematics.

The dynamics of the γ Vel cluster and nearby Vela OB2 association (2020)
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Armstrong, J. J., Wright, N., Jeffries, R., & Jackson, R. J. (2020). The dynamics of the γ Vel cluster and nearby Vela OB2 association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(4), 4794 -4801. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa939

The kinematics of low-mass stars in nearby OB associations can provide clues about their origins and evolution. Combining the precise positions, proper motions, and parallaxes given in the second Gaia Data Release with radial-velocity measurements ob... Read More about The dynamics of the γ Vel cluster and nearby Vela OB2 association.

A kinematically hot population of young stars in the solar neighbourhood (2020)
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Binks, A., Wright, N., & Jeffries, R. (2020). A kinematically hot population of young stars in the solar neighbourhood. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(2), 2429-2439. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa909

In the last three decades several hundred nearby members of young stellar moving groups (MGs) have been identified, but there has been less systematic effort to quantify or characterise young stars that do not belong to previously identified MGs. Usi... Read More about A kinematically hot population of young stars in the solar neighbourhood.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: a new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters - I. Stellar parameters, and iron-peak, nd proton-capture elements (2020)
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Jeffries. (2020). The Gaia-ESO Survey: a new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters - I. Stellar parameters, and iron-peak, nd proton-capture elements. Astronomy and Astrophysics, A34 - A34. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937055

Context. Open clusters are recognised as excellent tracers of Galactic thin-disc properties. At variance with intermediate-age and old open clusters, for which a significant number of studies is now available, clusters younger than ?150 Myr have been... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: a new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters - I. Stellar parameters, and iron-peak, nd proton-capture elements.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating the relationship between Age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters (2019)
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Casali, G., Magrini, L., Tognelli, E., Jackson, R., Jeffries, R., Lagarde, N., …Bayo, A. (2019). The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating the relationship between Age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 629, Article A62. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935282

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In the era of large high-resolution spectroscopic surveys such as Gaia-ESO and APOGEE, high-quality spectra can contribute to our understanding of the Galactic chemical evolution by providing abundances of elements that belong to the diffe... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating the relationship between Age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters.