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银河系的恒星晕

The stellar halo of the Galaxy

Amina Helmi

摘要:

恒星晕可能保存着一些保存最完好的星系形成历史的化石。它们是星系合并过程的自然产物,可能发生在星系的组装过程中,因此很可能是星系中最普遍的组成部分,与它们的哈勃类型无关。本文综述了我们目前对银河系晕星的空间结构、运动学和化学的认识。近年来,由于发现了大量的亚结构,特别是在外晕中,我们经历了范式的变化。我讨论了目前可用的观测约束的影响,并折叠成几个可能的形成方案。在不久的将来,特别是在盖亚的时代,通过大范围的光度测量和光谱测量的结合,解开星系晕的形成是可能的。

英文摘要:

Stellar halos may hold some of the best preserved fossils of the formation history of galaxies. They are a natural product of the merging processes that probably take place during the assembly of a galaxy, and hence may well be the most ubiquitous component of galaxies, independently of their Hubble type. This review focuses on our current understanding of the spatial structure, the kinematics and chemistry of halo stars in the Milky Way. In recent years, we have experienced a change in paradigm thanks to the discovery of large amounts of substructure, especially in the outer halo. I discuss the implications of the currently available observational constraints and fold them into several possible formation scenarios. Unraveling the formation of the Galactic halo will be possible in the near future through a combination of large wide field photometric and spectroscopic surveys, and especially in the era of Gaia.

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