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作为银河系外盘运动学探测器的A和F星

A and F stars as probes of outer Galactic disc kinematics

A. Harris, J. E. Drew, H. J. Farnhill, M. Monguió, M. Gebran, N. J. Wright, J. J. Drake, S. E. Sale

摘要:

以往对银河系外盘自转规律的研究主要使用气体示踪剂或团簇巨星。在这里,我们探索A和F星作为替代品:这些提供了一个更密集的采样在外盘比气体示踪剂,并经历了显着减少速度散射比老的团块巨星。第一次调查证实了A星在这个角色中的合适性。我们的工作是基于光谱学的$\sim$ 1300光度选定的恒星在红色的钙三重态区域,选择减轻对星际消光的影响。这两颗恒星位于两个低银河纬度的视线范围内,一个是$\ell = 118^{\circ}$,采样强烈的银河旋转剪切,另一个是$\ell = 178^{\circ}$,靠近Anticentre。利用马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗参数拟合,测量了恒星参数和径向速度,并计算了距离。获得的径向速度随距离的趋势与气体示踪剂的现有平坦或缓慢上升的旋转定律不一致(Brand & Blitz 1993; Reid等人2014)。相反,我们的结果与Huang et al.(2016)从盘丛巨星获得的结果相吻合,这些结果有利于提高圆周速度。另一种解释,在螺旋臂扰动方面是不直接的。我们评估的作用,未检测到的二进制的样本和距离误差可能在引入偏见,并表明,前者是一个次要因素。我们的圆周速度趋势的随机误差在$\pm 5$ km s $^{-1}$以内。

英文摘要:

Previous studies of the rotation law in the outer Galactic disc have mainly used gas tracers or clump giants. Here, we explore A and F stars as alternatives: these provide a much denser sampling in the outer disc than gas tracers and have experienced significantly less velocity scattering than older clump giants. This first investigation confirms the suitability of A stars in this role. Our work is based on spectroscopy of $\sim$ 1300 photometrically-selected stars in the red calcium-triplet region, chosen to mitigate against the effects of interstellar extinction. The stars are located in two low Galactic latitude sightlines, at longitudes $\ell = 118^{\circ}$, sampling strong Galactic rotation shear, and $\ell = 178^{\circ}$, near the Anticentre. With the use of Markov Chain Monte Carlo parameter fitting, stellar parameters and radial velocities are measured, and distances computed. The obtained trend of radial velocity with distance is inconsistent with existing flat or slowly rising rotation laws from gas tracers (Brand & Blitz 1993; Reid et al. 2014). Instead, our results fit in with those obtained by Huang et al. (2016) from disc clump giants that favoured rising circular speeds. An alternative interpretation in terms of spiral arm perturbation is not straight forward. We assess the role that undetected binaries in the sample and distance error may have in introducing bias, and show that the former is a minor factor. The random errors in our trend of circular velocity are within $\pm 5$ km s$^{-1}$.

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