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利用光度测量在恒星晕中发现星系群:当前的灵敏度和未来的展望

Group Finding in the Stellar Halo using Photometric Surveys: Current Sensitivity and Future Prospects

Sanjib Sharma, Kathryn V Johnston, Steven R. Majewski, James Bullock, Ricardo R. Muñoz

摘要:

SDSS和2 MASS已经证明了恒星晕中普遍存在的亚结构,未来的调查承诺将更详细地探索晕。本文探讨了什么可以从当前和未来的光度数据库使用组查找技术。我们比较了从2 MASS的M-巨星样本中恢复的组与在模拟$Λ$ CDM恒星晕的合成调查中发现的组,并证明了广泛的一致性。我们还发现,这些恢复组可能代表大多数的高光度($\log(L/L_{Sun})>6.67$)卫星吸积在过去的10 Gyr和远心在100 kpc的轨道上。然而,M-巨星调查的吸积事件,无论是古老的,从低光度的物体或径向轨道上的敏感性是有限的,因为恒星数量少,偏向于高金属丰度的恒星和浅深度。我们研究在何种程度上解决这些限制,目前和未来的调查,特别是目录的主序星关闭(MSTO)从SDSS和LSST,和RR-天琴座恒星从LSST或PanSTARRS。MSTO巡天对低光度事件($\log(L/L_{Sun}~5$或更低)比2 MASS M-巨星样本更敏感,而RR-Lyrics巡天具有优越的深度,擅长检测高偏心轨道上的事件。当结合起来,我们希望这些测光调查提供一个全面的图片,最后10个银河系吸积陀螺仪。比这更早的事件相位混合太多而无法发现,需要额外的信息,如速度和化学丰度。

英文摘要:

The ubiquity of substructure in the stellar halo has already been demonstrated by the SDSS and 2MASS and future surveys promise to explore the halo in ever more detail. This paper examines what can be learnt from current and future photometric-databases using group-finding techniques. We compare groups recovered from a sample of M-giants from 2MASS with those found in synthetic surveys of simulated $Λ$CDM stellar halos and demonstrate broad consistency. We also find that these recovered groups are likely to represent the majority of high-luminosity ($\log(L/L_{Sun})>6.67$) satellites accreted within the last 10 Gyr and on orbits with apocenters within 100 kpc. However the sensitivity of the M-giant survey to accretion events that were either ancient, from low-luminosity objects or those on radial orbits is limited because of the low number of stars, bias towards high-metallicity stars and the shallow depth. We examine the extent to which these limitations are addressed by current and future surveys, in particular catalogues of main-sequence turn-off (MSTO) stars from SDSS and LSST, and of RR-Lyrae stars from LSST or PanSTARRS. The MSTO surveys are more sensitive to low-luminosity events ($\log(L/L_{Sun}~5$ or less) than the 2MASS M-giant sample, while the RR-Lyrae surveys, with superior depth, are good at detecting events on highly eccentric orbits. When combined we expect these photometric surveys to provide a comprehensive picture of the last 10 Gyr of Galactic accretion. Events older than this are too phase mixed to be discovered and would require additional information such as velocity and chemical abundance.

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