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银河系的晕-晕转变-来自恒星丰度的证据

The Galactic Disk-Halo transition - Evidence from Stellar Abundances

Poul E. Nissen, William J. Schuster

摘要:

从金属丰度在-1.5 < [Fe/H] <-0.5范围内的恒星的元素丰度中,可以获得关于银盘、晕和卫星星系之间关系的新信息。本文给出了用ESO VLT/UVES摄谱仪观测的26颗晕星和13颗厚盘星的初步结果。晕星分为两组:一组(9颗星)的[alpha/Fe]= 0.30 +-0.03,就像厚盘星一样。另一组(17颗恒星)显示出明显的偏离趋势,从[Fe/H]= -1.3时的[alpha/Fe]= 0.20到[Fe/H]=-0.8时的[alpha/Fe]= 0.08。讨论了低α星的运动学特征,并利用Na/Fe、Ni/Fe、Cu/Fe和Ba/Y丰度比,研究了低α星与薄盘或银河系卫星星系的联系。此外,我们比较我们的数据与模拟的化学丰度分布在分层形成的恒星晕在LambdaCDM宇宙。

英文摘要:

New information on the relations between the Galactic disks, the halo, and satellite galaxies is being obtained from elemental abundances of stars having metallicities in the range -1.5 < [Fe/H] < -0.5. The first results for a sample of 26 halo stars and 13 thick-disk stars observed with the ESO VLT/UVES spectrograph are presented. The halo stars fall in two distinct groups: One group (9 stars) has [alpha/Fe]= 0.30 +-0.03 like the thick-disk stars. The other group (17 stars) shows a clearly deviating trend ranging from [alpha/Fe]= 0.20 at [Fe/H]= -1.3 to [alpha/Fe]= 0.08 at [Fe/H]= -0.8. The kinematics of the stars are discussed and the abundance ratios Na/Fe, Ni/Fe, Cu/Fe and Ba/Y are applied to see if the low-alpha stars are connected to the thin disk or to Milky Way satellite galaxies. Furthermore, we compare our data with simulations of chemical abundance distributions in hierarchically formed stellar halos in a LambdaCDM Universe.

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