Abstract
Hipparcos data has allowed the identification of a large number of clump stars in the Solar Neighbourhood. We discuss our present knowledge about their distributions of masses, ages, colours, magnitudes, and metallicities. We point out that the age distribution of clump stars is “biased” towards intermediate-ages. Therefore, the nletallicity information they contain is different from that provided by the local G dwarfs. Since accurate abundance determinations are about to become available, these may provide useful constraints to chemical evolution models of the local disc
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Girardi, L. (2000). Clump Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood. In: Matteucci, F., Giovannelli, F. (eds) The Evolution of The Milky Way. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 255. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0938-6_10
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