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银河系厚盘的运动学和化学垂直结构I。厚盘运动学

Kinematical and chemical vertical structure of the Galactic thick disk I. Thick disk kinematics

C. Moni Bidin, G. Carraro, R. A. Mendez

摘要:

本文利用距平面4.5kpc的412颗红巨星观测资料,研究了银河系厚盘运动学性质随银河系高度Z的变化。我们证实了其他作者发现的朝向银河系反中心的非零平均径向运动,但我们发现它在|Z| =3 kpc时改变了符号,并且单独提出的LSR向内运动不能解释这些观测结果。旋转速度随着|Z|的降低而降低了-30 km/s/kpc,但是数据更好地由指数为1.25的幂律表示,类似于从SDSS数据分析中提出的。所有的速度分散度都随着|Z|的增加而增加,但垂直梯度很小。分散体成比例地增长,各向异性没有显著变化。比值sigma_U/sigma_W=2表明厚盘可能是由低纬度合并事件形成的。顶点偏差随着银河系高度的增加而增加,在|Z| =3.5 kpc时达到~20度。倾斜角也增加,并且椭圆体在径向-垂直平面中的取向总是介于与圆柱和球面坐标系的对准之间。|Z| =2 kpc时的倾斜角与MOND的预期一致,但需要将计算扩展到更高的|Z|以进行结论性试验。最后,在2.5和3.5千秒差距之间,我们检测到许多运动学量的线性趋势的偏差,这表明可能存在一些运动学子结构。

英文摘要:

The variation of the kinematical properties of the Galactic thick disk with Galactic height Z are studied by means of 412 red giants observed in the direction of the south Galactic pole up to 4.5 kpc from the plane. We confirm the non-null mean radial motion toward the Galactic anticenter found by other authors, but we find that it changes sign at |Z|=3 kpc, and the proposed inward motion of the LSR alone cannot explain these observations. The rotational velocity decreases with |Z| by -30 km/s/kpc, but the data are better represented by a power-law with index 1.25, similar to that proposed from the analysis of SDSS data. All the velocity dispersions increase with |Z|, but the vertical gradients are small. The dispersions grow proportionally, with no significant variation of the anisotropy. The ratio sigma_U/sigma_W=2 suggests that the thick disk could have formed from a low-latitude merging event. The vertex deviation increases with Galactic height, reaching ~20 degrees at |Z|=3.5 kpc. The tilt angle also increases, and the orientation of the ellipsoid in the radial-vertical plane is constantly intermediate between the alignment with the cylindrical and the spherical coordinate systems. The tilt angle at |Z|=2 kpc coincides with the expectations of MOND, but an extension of the calculations to higher |Z| is required to perform a conclusive test. Finally, between 2.5 and 3.5 kpc we detect deviations from the linear trend of many kinematical quantities, suggesting that some kinematical substructure could be present.

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