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arXiv 1707.00697astro-ph.GA
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用恒星流测量太阳的运动

Measuring the Sun's Motion with Stellar Streams

Khyati Malhan, Rodrigo A. Ibata

摘要:

本文提出了一种利用星系晕星流自行测量太阳运动的方法。该方法依赖于这样一个事实,即当从相对于银河系静止的非旋转框架观察时,垂直于来自低质量祖先的流的恒星运动接近于零,并且偏离零是由于观察者的反射运动。我们在这里实现的程序具有独立于银河系质量分布的优点。我们运行了一套模拟来测试我们开发的算法,并发现我们可以用ESA/Gaia任务即将提供的质量数据恢复输入的太阳运动到良好的精度。

英文摘要:

We present a method for measuring the Sun's motion using the proper motions of Galactic halo star streams. The method relies on the fact that the motion of the stars perpendicular to a stream from a low-mass progenitor is close to zero when viewed from a non-rotating frame at rest with respect to the Galaxy, and that the deviation from zero is due to the reflex motion of the observer. The procedure we implement here has the advantage of being independent of the Galactic mass distribution. We run a suite of simulations to test the algorithm we have developed, and find that we can recover the input Solar motion to good accuracy with data of the quality that will soon become available from the ESA/Gaia mission.

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