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再看EBS:一个恒星碎片流和一个可能的祖先

Another Look at the EBS: A Stellar Debris Stream and a Possible Progenitor

Carl J. Grillmair

摘要:

使用斯隆数字巡天数据发布7,我们重新检查东部带状结构(EBS),恒星碎片流首次发现在数据发布5和最近检测到的速度空间Schlaufman等人。可见部分的流是18度长,大致位于银河系的Anticenter方向,从Hydra延伸到巨蟹座。在9.7千秒差距的估计距离,流是大约170秒差距在天空中。流的曲率意味着一个相当偏心的箱形轨道,它靠近银河系中心和太阳,使它在动力学上与附近的麒麟座流、Anticenter流和GD-1流不同。在这条星流中,有一个相对较强的2度宽的恒星聚集区,它们的颜色和星等分布非常相似,我们将其命名为长蛇座I。考虑到它在溪流中的突出地位和它不寻常的形态,我们认为九头蛇一号是EBS祖先的最后遗迹,可能已经脱离了束缚,或者处于潮汐溶解的最后阵痛中。虽然Hydra I和EBS都有相对较高的速度色散,但考虑到流的宽度相对较窄,以及这种偏心轨道所必需的与盘的凸起和大质量成分的高频率相遇,我们认为祖先很可能是一个球状星团,并且它和流都经历了显着的加热。

英文摘要:

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7, we reexamine the Eastern Banded Structure (EBS), a stellar debris stream first discovered in Data Release 5 and more recently detected in velocity space by Schlaufman et al. The visible portion of the stream is 18 degrees long, lying roughly in the Galactic Anticenter direction and extending from Hydra to Cancer. At an estimated distance of 9.7 kpc, the stream is approximately 170 pc across on the sky. The curvature of the stream implies a fairly eccentric box orbit that passes close to both the Galactic center and to the sun, making it dynamically distinct from the nearby Monoceros, Anticenter, and GD-1 streams. Within the stream is a relatively strong, 2 degree-wide concentration of stars with a very similar color-magnitude distribution that we designate Hydra I. Given its prominence within the stream and its unusual morphology, we suggest that Hydra I is the last vestige of the EBS's progenitor, possibly already unbound or in the final throes of tidal dissolution. Though both Hydra I and the EBS have a relatively high velocity dispersion, given the comparatively narrow width of the stream and the high frequency of encounters with the bulge and massive constituents of the disk that such an eccentric orbit would entail, we suggest that the progenitor was likely a globular cluster, and that both it and the stream have undergone significant heating over time.

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