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Dr. Bridget Ratcliffe

Publications

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

Bar-spiral interaction induces radial migration and star formation bursts
Marques, L., Minchev, I., Ratcliffe, B., Khoperskov, S., Steinmetz, M., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 701, A88; published September 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554020, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume
Rediscovering the Milky Way with an orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data: III. Panoramic view of the bulge
Khoperskov, S., ... Steinmetz, M., Ratcliffe, B., ... Kacharov, N., Minchev, I., Krajnović, D., Valentini, M., de Jong, R. S., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 700, A90; published August 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453306, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume, Galaxies and Quasars
Rediscovering the Milky Way with an orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data: II. Chrono-chemo-kinematics of the disc
Khoperskov, S., Steinmetz, M., ... Krajnović, D., Ratcliffe, B., Minchev, I., ... Kacharov, N., Marques, L., Valentini, M., de Jong, R. S., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 700, A89; published August 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453305, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume, Galaxies and Quasars
Evolution of the radial interstellar medium metallicity gradient in the Milky Way disk since redshift ≈3
Ratcliffe, B., Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., ... Marques, L., Bernaldez, J. P., ... Steinmetz, M., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 698, A267; published June 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452658, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume
Rediscovering the Milky Way with an orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data: I. Method validation
Khoperskov, S., ... Steinmetz, M., Ratcliffe, B., Minchev, I., Krajnović, D., ... Kacharov, N., Marques, L., Valentini, M., de Jong, R. S., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 695, A220; published March 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453304, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume, Galaxies and Quasars
Effects of secular growth and mergers on the evolution of metallicity gradients and azimuthal variations in a Milky Way-like galaxy
Renaud, F., Ratcliffe, B., Minchev, I., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 694, A56; published February 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452219, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume
There is no place like home - finding birth radii of stars in the Milky Way
Lu, Y., Minchev, I., ... Khoperskov, S., Steinmetz, M., Libeskind, N., ... Ratcliffe, B., 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535, 1, 392; published November 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae2364, NASA ADS
The chemical evolution of the Milky Way thin disk using solar twins
Plotnikova, A., Spina, L., Ratcliffe, B., Casali, G., Carraro, G., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, A298; published November 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451167, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume
Why does the Milky Way have a bar?
Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., Steinmetz, M., Ratcliffe, B., Walcher, J. C., Libeskind, N. I., 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 4, 3975; published October 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1902, NASA ADS
Empirical derivation of the metallicity evolution with time and radius using TNG50 Milky Way and Andromeda analogues
Ratcliffe, B., Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., ... de Jong, R. S., Steinmetz, M., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, A352; published October 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449268, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume
Milky Way and the Local Volume
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: KH/2.16
bratcliffenothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam