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星系晕中的四个新的恒星碎片流

Four New Stellar Debris Streams in the Galactic Halo

Carl J. Grillmair

摘要:

我们报告的检测四个新的恒星碎片流和一个新的矮星系候选人在斯隆数字巡天。其中三条流的距离在3到15千秒差距之间,在天空中的跨度在37到84度之间,非常狭窄,很可能是起源于现存或分裂的球状星团的潮汐流。第四条流要宽得多,距离大约45千秒差距,长度至少为53度,最有可能是来自矮星系的潮汐碎片。由于每条溪流都跨越多个星座,我们扩展了传统,并将它们命名为冥河、科塞托斯、忘川和冥河。在同样的距离,显然嵌入冥河流的是一个约1千秒差距的恒星集中,具有类似的颜色-星等分布,我们将其命名为牧夫座III。鉴于其非常低的表面密度,它的位置内流,其明显的干扰形态,我们认为,牧夫座III可能是冥河的祖先,并可能在潮汐溶解的最后阵痛。虽然目前的数据不允许强有力的限制,初步的轨道估计流不指向任何可能的祖先在已知的球状星团和矮星系。

英文摘要:

We report on the detection of four new stellar debris streams and a new dwarf galaxy candidate in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Three of the streams, ranging between 3 and 15 kpc in distance and spanning between 37 and 84 degrees on the sky, are very narrow and are most probably tidal streams originating in extant or disrupted globular clusters. The fourth stream is much broader, roughly 45 kpc distant, at least 53 degrees in length, and is most likely the tidal debris from a dwarf galaxy. As the streams each span multiple constellations, we extend tradition and designate them the Acheron, Cocytos, Lethe, and Styx streams. At the same distance and apparently embedded in the Styx stream is a ~1 kpc-wide concentration of stars with a similar color-magnitude distribution which we designate Bootes III. Given its very low surface density, its location within the stream, and its apparently disturbed morphology, we argue that Bootes III may be the progenitor of Styx and in possibly the final throes of tidal dissolution. While the current data do not permit strong constraints, preliminary orbit estimates for the streams do not point to any likely progenitors among the known globular clusters and dwarf galaxies.

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