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银河系晕的年龄结构

The age structure of the Milky Way's halo

D. Carollo, T. C. Beers, V. M. Placco, R. M. Santucci, P. Denissenkov, P. B. Tissera, G. Lentner, S. Rossi, Y. S. Lee, J. Tumlinson

摘要:

我们提出了一个新的,高分辨率的计时(年龄)银河系晕的地图,根据推断年龄的~130,000场蓝色水平分支(BHB)恒星与测光从斯隆数字巡天。我们的地图展示了年龄大于12 Gyr的BHB恒星的强烈中心集中,从银河系中心延伸到~15 kpc(接近太阳附近),场星的平均年龄随着距离的增加而减少1-1.5 Gyr到~45-50 kpc,伴随着恒星年龄分散的明显增加,和许多已知的(和以前未知的)解决过密度和碎片流,包括人马座流。这些结果与现代LambdaCDM宇宙学模拟的预期一致,并支持双(内/外)晕系统的存在,并被尚未完全相空间混合的过密度和碎片流的存在打断。

英文摘要:

We present a new, high-resolution chronographic (age) map of the Milky Way's halo, based on the inferred ages of ~130,000 field blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars with photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our map exhibits a strong central concentration of BHB stars with ages greater than 12 Gyr, extending up to ~15 kpc from the Galactic center (reaching close to the solar vicinity), and a decrease in the mean ages of field stars with distance by 1-1.5 Gyr out to ~45-50 kpc, along with an apparent increase of the dispersion of stellar ages, and numerous known (and previously unknown) resolved over-densities and debris streams, including the Sagittarius Stream. These results agree with expectations from modern LambdaCDM cosmological simulations, and support the existence of a dual (inner/outer) halo system, punctuated by the presence of over-densities and debris streams that have not yet completely phase-space mixed.

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