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BHB和RR天琴座星朝向银心反中心和北银心极的运动学性质:内晕和外晕的转换

The Kinematic Properties of BHB and RR Lyrae stars towards the Anticentre and the North Galactic Pole: The Transition between the Inner and the Outer Halo

T. D. Kinman, C. Cacciari, A. Bragaglia, R. Smart, A. Spagna

摘要:

我们在Anticentre场中识别出51颗蓝色水平支星(BHB),12颗可能的BHB星和58颗RR型天琴座星。它们的选择不取决于它们的运动学。给出了7颗未知天琴座RR型星的光变曲线和星历表。除了4颗天琴座RR型星外,其余都是奥斯特霍夫I型星。我们对BHB星的选择标准给出的结果与Smith et al.(2010)和Ruhland et al.(2011)使用的结果一致。我们使用5种方法来确定BHB星的距离和3种方法来确定RR天琴座星的距离。这些恒星的绝对自行(主要来自GSCII和SDSS(DR 7)数据库); 31颗BHB星和37颗RR Lyrics星的径向速度。结合这些数据的BHB和RR天琴座恒星与以前发现的领域在北银河系极点,我们发现,逆行轨道占主导地位的银河系中心距离大于12.5千秒差距。已知太阳附近的大多数贫金属恒星都集中在Lperp与Lz角动量图中。我们发现,在主浓度的异常值的数量的比例增加与galactocentric距离。这些异常值与Lperp和Lz的位置表明,晕BHB和RR天琴座星有更多的逆行轨道和更球形的分布随着银河系的距离增加。六颗RR型天琴座恒星被确认在H99的异常群中;它们的[Fe/H]的微小分布表明它们可能来自一个单一的球状星团。另一组异常值包含两对天琴座RR型恒星,每对恒星都有相似的性质。

英文摘要:

We identify 51 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars, 12 possible BHB stars and 58 RR Lyrae stars in Anticentre fields. Their selection does not depend on their kinematics. Light curves and ephemerides are given for 7 previously unknown RR Lyrae stars. All but 4 of the RR Lyrae stars are of Oosterhoff type I. Our selection criteria for BHB stars give results that agree with those used by Smith et al. (2010) and Ruhland et al. (2011). We use 5 methods to determine distances for the BHB stars and 3 methods for the RR Lyrae stars to get distances on a uniform scale. Absolute proper motions (largely derived from the GSCII and SDSS (DR7) databases) are given for these stars; radial velocities are given for 31 of the BHB stars and 37 of the RR Lyrae stars. Combining these data for BHB and RR Lyrae stars with those previously found in fields at the North Galactic Pole, we find that retrograde orbits dominate for galactocentric distances greater than 12.5 kpc. The majority of metal-poor stars in the solar neighbourhood are known to be concentrated in a Lperp vs. Lz angular momentum plot. We show that the ratio of the number of outliers to the number in the main concentration increases with galactocentric distance. The location of these outliers with Lperp and Lz shows that the halo BHB and RR Lyrae stars have more retrograde orbits and a more spherical distribution with increasing galactocentric distance. Six RR Lyrae stars are identified in the H99 group of outliers; the small spread in their [Fe/H] suggests that they could have come from a single globular cluster. Another group of outliers contains two pairs of RR Lyrae stars; the stars in each pair have similar properties.

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