Impact of radial migration on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk

We study the role of radial migration of stars on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk with a 1D semi-analytical disk model. We describe radial migration with parametrised time- and radius-dependent diffusion coefficients, based on the analysis of a N-body+SPH simulation of a disk galaxy (analyzed by Kubryk et al. 2013). Our model reproduces well the present day values of most of the main global observables of the MW. Assuming that the thick disk is the oldest (>9 Gyr) part of the disk, we find that the adopted radial migration scheme can reproduce quantitatively the main local properties of the thin and thick disk: metallicity-distributions, dispersion in age-metallicity relation, “two-branch” behaviour in the O/Fe vs. Fe/H relation, local surface densities of stars, etc..