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SEGUE/SDSS是否表示双重星系晕?

Does SEGUE/SDSS indicate a dual Galactic halo?

Ralph Schoenrich, Martin Asplund, Luca Casagrande

摘要:

我们重新审视最近声称的观测证据的双重星系晕的SEGUE/SDSS数据,并追溯到错误的处理和忽视的选择效果。特别是,在晕垂直丰度梯度的检测可以解释为金属丰度的距离偏差。一个类似的偏差,和磁盘污染的影响,影响蓝色水平分支恒星的样本。这些例子强调了为什么非体积完整的样品需要从理论模型或广泛的偏差校正的正演模拟。我们还展示了观测的不确定性如何在观测到的晕星的方位角速度分布中产生特定的非高斯性,这可能被错误地识别为两个高斯分量。当我们对包括距离不确定性的测量过程进行建模时,单个运动学分量产生与观测数据的极好拟合。此外,我们表明,在适当的运动空间中的样本差异的运动学切割的直接后果,并增强距离估计时,不太准确。因此,它们的存在既不能证明存在一个单独的种群,也不能衡量应用距离的可靠性。我们的结论是,目前没有证据表明SEGUE/SDSS,将有利于一个双星系晕在一个单一的晕充满子结构。

英文摘要:

We re-examine recent claims of observational evidence for a dual Galactic halo in SEGUE/SDSS data, and trace them back to improper error treatment and neglect of selection effects. In particular, the detection of a vertical abundance gradient in the halo can be explained as a metallicity bias in distance. A similar bias, and the impact of disk contamination, affect the sample of blue horizontal branch stars. These examples highlight why non-volume complete samples require forward-modelling from theoretical models or extensive bias-corrections. We also show how observational uncertainties produce the specific non-Gaussianity in the observed azimuthal velocity distribution of halo stars, which can be erroneously identified as two Gaussian components. A single kinematic component yields an excellent fit to the observed data, when we model the measurement process including distance uncertainties. Furthermore, we show that sample differences in proper motion space are the direct consequence of kinematic cuts, and are enhanced when distance estimates are less accurate. Thus, their presence is neither a proof for a separate population, nor a measure of reliability for the applied distances. We conclude that currently there is no evidence from SEGUE/SDSS that would favour a dual Galactic halo over a single halo full of substructure.

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