Spectroscopic survey of 479 thick disc stars

In particular, the kinematic and chemical study of the thick disc can give valuable information on the merging history of the Milky Way. Our aim is to detect and characterise the Galactic thick disc chemically and dynamically by analysing F, G and K stars, whose atmospheres reflect their initial chemical composition.

We performed a spectroscopic survey of nearly 700 stars probing the Galactic thick disc far from the solar neighbourhood towards the Galactic coordinates (l~277{deg}, b~47{deg}). The derived effective temperatures, surface gravities and overall metallicities were then combined with stellar evolution isochrones, radial velocities and proper motions to derive the distances, kinematics and orbital parameters of the sample stars.