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寻找银河系的吸积盘

The hunt for the Milky Way's accreted disc

Gregory R. Ruchti, Justin I. Read, Sofia Feltzing, Antonio Pipino, Thomas Bensby

摘要:

银河系被认为是恒星和暗物质的吸积盘。这是由于大于1:10的大质量合并物被动力摩擦力优先拖向盘平面,然后被潮汐撕碎。吸积盘可能只占银河系薄而厚的恒星盘的一小部分。然而,这是有趣的,因为:(一)它的相关的“暗盘”有重要的意义,希望在实验室中检测到一个暗物质粒子的实验;和(二)存在或不存在这样的光盘约束合并历史的银河系。在这项工作中,我们开发了一个化学动力学模板来寻找吸积盘。我们将我们的模板应用于Ruchti等人(2011)的高分辨率光谱样本,目前没有发现吸积星的证据。我们的结果是一致的,一个安静的银河系没有>1:10合并,因为光盘形成和相应的轻“暗盘”。然而,我们警告说,虽然我们的方法可以鲁棒地识别吸积星,但我们不完整的恒星样本使得明确排除它们更具挑战性。为此需要更大的无偏恒星样本。

英文摘要:

The Milky Way is expected to host an accreted disc of stars and dark matter. This forms as massive >1:10 mergers are preferentially dragged towards the disc plane by dynamical friction and then tidally shredded. The accreted disc likely contributes only a tiny fraction of the Milky Way's thin and thick stellar disc. However, it is interesting because: (i) its associated `dark disc' has important implications for experiments hoping to detect a dark matter particle in the laboratory; and (ii) the presence or absence of such a disc constrains the merger history of our Galaxy. In this work, we develop a chemo-dynamical template to hunt for the accreted disc. We apply our template to the high-resolution spectroscopic sample from Ruchti et al. (2011), finding at present no evidence for accreted stars. Our results are consistent with a quiescent Milky Way with no >1:10 mergers since the disc formed and a correspondingly light `dark disc'. However, we caution that while our method can robustly identify accreted stars, our incomplete stellar sample makes it more challenging to definitively rule them out. Larger unbiased stellar samples will be required for this.

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