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双鱼座恒星流的运动学发现

Kinematic Discovery of a Stellar Stream located in Pisces

Charles Martin, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Heidi Jo Newberg, Carl Grillmair

摘要:

我们报告了双鱼座恒星流(PSS)的运动学发现,在银河系经度约l=135度和经度之间的-39 < b < -36度。我们最初从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)数据发布8中红巨星分支星的速度中识别出这种晕子结构,并从SDSS光度数据中证实了它在关闭星中的存在。PSS是一个狭窄的,运动学冷潮汐流,速度色散为8公里/秒。其金属丰度[Fe/H]=-2.2,分散度约为0.3 dex。流关闭的颜色-星等特征,结合我们测量的金属丰度,将PSS定位在35+/-3千秒差距的距离。双鱼座恒星流与之前宣布的“三角座流”相同,也是拟议中的“a流”的一部分。我们排除了PSS与其他先前已知的银河系子结构在同一地区的天空。

英文摘要:

We report the kinematic discovery of the Pisces Stellar Stream (PSS), at Galactic longitude of roughly l=135 degrees and longitude between -39 < b < -36 deg. We originally identified this halo substructure from velocities of red giant branch stars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 8, and confirmed its presence in turnoff stars from SDSS photometric data. The PSS is a narrow, kinematically cold tidal stream, with a velocity dispersion of 8 km/s. Its metallicity is [Fe/H]=-2.2, with ~0.3 dex dispersion. The color-magnitude signature of the stream turnoff, combined with our measured metallicity, places the PSS at a distance of 35+/-3 kpc. The Pisces Stellar Stream is the same as the previously announced "Triangulum stream" and part of the proposed "stream a". We rule out an association of the PSS with other previously known Milky Way substructures in the same region of the sky.

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