We present a magnitude and proper motion limited catalogue of ~10,000 white dwarf candidates, obtained from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey by means of reduced proper motion selection. This catalogue extends to magnitudes r~19.75 and proper motions as low as mu ~0.05"/yr, and covers nearly three quarters of the sky. Photometric parallaxes provide distance estimates accurate to ~50%. This catalogue is used to measure the luminosity functions for disk and spheroid white dwarfs, using strict velocity cuts to isolate subsamples belonging to each population. Disk luminosity functions measured in this manner are really a conglomerate of thin and thick disk objects, due to the significant velocity overlap between these populations. We introduce a new statistical approach to the stellar luminosity function for nearby objects that succesfully untangles the contributions from the different kinematic populations, without the need for stringent velocity cuts. This improves the statistical power by allowing all stars to contribute to the luminosity function, even at tangential velocities where the populations are indistinguishable. This method is particularly suited to white dwarfs, for which population discrimination by chemical tagging is not possible. We use this technique to obtain the first measurement of the thick disk white dwarf luminosity function, while also improving constraint on both the thin disk and spheroid luminosity functions. We find that the thin disk, thick disk and spheroid populations contribute to the local white dwarf density in roughly 79%/16%/5% proportions.
The Spheroidal Bulge of the Milky Way: Chemodynamically Distinct from the Inner-Thick Disc and Bar
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)(波茨坦莱布尼茨天体物理研究所);Universität Potsdam(波茨坦大学);Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(墨西哥国立自治大学);Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(墨西哥国立自治大学天文研究所);Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利天体物理研究所);Universidad de La Laguna(拉古纳大学);Max Planck Institute for Astronomy(马克斯·普朗克天体物理研究所);Universitat de Barcelona(巴塞罗那大学);Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona(巴塞罗那大学宇宙科学研究所);Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)(加泰罗尼亚空间研究学院)
The disc origin of the Milky Way bulge: Dissecting the chemo-morphological relations using N-body simulations and APOGEE
关于银河系(MW)核球中贫金属恒星星族的起源有一个长期的争论,两种主要的假设是这些恒星族要么是i)经典贫金属椭球体的一部分,要么是ii)与太阳附近化学定义的厚盘相同的恒星族。在这里,我们测试后一种情况下是否可以重现所观察到的MW凸起的化学性质。要做到这一点,我们比较了一个复合(薄+厚)恒星盘的N体模拟-它长期演变形成一个酒吧和一个方形/花生(b/p)凸起-从APOGEE DR 13的数据。这个模型中厚盘是大质量的,并且集中在中心,可以再现核球中富金属和贫金属恒星星族的形态,以及从APOGEE数据获得的平均金属丰度和[ $α$ /Fe]图。它还再现了隆凸金属丰度分布函数(BMT)在经度和纬度上的趋势。此外,我们表明,该模型预测小,但可测量的方位角金属丰度的变化,由于在酒吧的薄,厚光盘的差分映射在内部光盘。因此,我们看到,MW核球中恒星星族的化学形态关系,可以通过将内部MW的薄盘和厚盘映射到b/p中而自然地再现。
Towards a fully consistent Milky Way disk model V. The disk model for 4 $-$ 14 kpc
我们提出了一个广义版本的半解析Just-Jahreiss(JJ)模型的银河系盘,结合我们的研究结果的太阳附近,适用于广泛的银河系距离,4千秒差距$\lesssim R \lesssim $ 14千秒差距。JJ模型是一个灵活的恒星星族合成工具,具有2500万年的精细年龄分辨率。它包括六个银河(MW)组件:四个扁平(指数薄和厚盘,原子和分子气体)和两个球状(球形恒星晕和核心等温暗物质球)。薄盘的总厚度假定在所有半径处都是恒定的,尽管也可以对扩口进行测试。所采用的薄盘恒星形成率(SFR)的径向变化反映了由内而外的磁盘增长的情况。我们允许一个光滑的幂律SFR连续修改任意数量的高斯峰。我们提出了一个公共代码的JJ模型补充的三套等时线(PARSEC,MIST,和BaSTI)。利用APOGEE红团簇巨星的金属丰度分布,我们约束了JJ模型年龄-金属丰度关系(AMR)的径向变化,并提出了AMR函数的一种新的解析形式。广义JJ模型是一个公开可用的工具,用于研究MW盘上不同的恒星星族。由于其良好的年龄分辨率和灵活性,它可以特别用于重建薄盘SFR,因为可以在其框架内构建各种不同的SFR形状。
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. The intrinsic shapes of low-luminosity galaxies in the core of the Virgo cluster, and a comparison with the Local Group