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邻近晕星相空间分布中的星流特征

Signatures of star streams in the phase space distribution of nearby halo stars

C. Dettbarn, B. Fuchs, C. Flynn, M. Williams

摘要:

我们分析了太阳附近约900颗非运动学选择的低金属丰度恒星的相空间分布。这些恒星主要代表了银河系的厚盘和晕。我们的目标是识别相空间中人口稠密的区域,我们将其解释为靠近太阳的恒星流的签名。搜索是在由恒星轨道的角动量和偏心率构成的空间中进行的。除了恢复所有已知的星流在厚盘,我们隔离了四个统计上显着的相空间超密度晕星之间。其中之一是与以前已知的晕星流,但其中三个是新的功能,我们建议也被认为是真正的晕流。

英文摘要:

We have analyzed the phase space distribution of a sample of about 900 non--kinematically selected low metallicity stars in the solar vicinity. The stars primarily represent the thick disk and halo populations of the Milky Way. We aim to identify overdensely populated regions in phase space, which we interpret as signatures of star streams passing close to the Sun. The search was conducted in a space constructed from the angular momenta and eccentricities of the stellar orbits. Besides recovering all well known star streams in the thick disk, we isolated four statistically significant phase space overdensities amongst halo stars. One of them is associated with a previously known halo star stream, but three of them are novel features, which we propose be also considered as genuine halo streams.

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