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银河星盘

The Galactic Stellar Disc

S. Feltzing, T. Bensby

摘要:

讨论了在星系形成背景下对银河系恒星盘的研究。特别是,我们探索银河系光盘使用一个新的样本约550矮星,我们最近获得的元素丰度和年龄的基础上高分辨率光谱的属性。对于所有的恒星,我们也有完整的运动学信息以及关于它们的恒星轨道的信息。我们证实了以前的研究结果,薄和厚盘有不同的丰度模式。但是我们也探索了比我们以前的研究更大范围的轨道参数。提出了几个新的结果。我们发现,到达银道面以上的恒星,并有偏心轨道显示出显着的紧丰度趋势。这意味着这些恒星是由大量均匀化的混合气体形成的。我们发现了一些证据,表明最有可能导致这个恒星星族升温的事件发生在几十亿年前。通过一个简单的,运动学探索的恒星与超太阳[Fe/H],我们表明,太阳附近包含富含金属,高速恒星,很可能是与厚盘。此外,HR 1614移动组和武仙座和大角星恒星流进行了讨论,它的结论是,很可能,一个大部分到目前为止确定的组和流在光盘中的恒星盘内的演化和相互作用的结果,而不是被溶解的星团或吞没的矮星系。

英文摘要:

The study of the Milky Way stellar discs in the context of galaxy formation is discussed. In particular we explore the properties of the Milky Way disc using a new sample of about 550 dwarf stars for which we have recently obtained elemental abundances and ages based on high resolution spectroscopy. For all the stars we also have full kinematic information as well as information about their stellar orbits. We confirm results from previous studies that the thin and the thick disc have distinct abundance patterns. But we also explore a larger range of orbital parameters than what has been possible in our previous studies. Several new results are presented. We find that stars that reaches high above the galactic plane and have eccentric orbits show remarkably tight abundance trends. This implies that these stars formed out of well mixed gas that had been homogenized over large volumes. We find some evidence that point to that the event that most likely caused the heating of this stellar population happened a few billion years ago. Through a simple, kinematic exploration of stars with super-solar [Fe/H] we show that the solar neighbourhood contains metal-rich, high velocity stars that very likely are associated with the thick disc. Additionally, the HR1614 moving group and the Hercules and Arcturus stellar streams are discussed and it is concluded that, probably, a large fraction of the so far identified groups and streams in the disc are the result of evolution and interactions within the stellar disc rather than being dissolved stellar clusters or engulfed dwarf galaxies.

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