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用RR天琴座星追踪的银河系厚盘密度剖面

The Galactic Thick Disc density profile traced with RR Lyrae stars

Cecilia Mateu, A. Katherina Vivas

摘要:

我们使用了一个公共的RR天琴座星表和贝叶斯方法的组合,以获得强大的结构参数的内晕(<25千秒差距)和厚盘的银河系。RR型天琴座星是古老的贫金属星族的明确的示踪物,它们的精确距离和距离可以单独估算,因此是追踪通常与厚盘相关的古老高[α/Fe]盘星族的可靠的独立手段。特别是,所选的RR天琴座样本跨越了低银河纬度朝向反中心方向的区域,允许探测圆盘的最外部分。我们的结果有利于厚盘短尺度的高度和短尺度的长度,$h_z=0.65_{-0.05}^{+0.09}$ kpc,$h_R=2.1_{-0.25}^{+0.82}$ kpc,在一个模型中,内晕有一个恒定的扁平的$q=0.90_{-0.03}^{+0.05}$和幂律指数$n=-2.78_{-0.05}^{+0.05}$。当考虑一个内晕时,也发现了厚盘的类似短尺度,内晕的扁平程度取决于半径。我们还探索了一个模型,其中厚盘有一个耀斑,虽然这只是轻微的限制,我们的数据,耀斑发作的内部$\sim11$ kpc是非常不利的。

英文摘要:

We used a combination of public RR Lyrae star catalogs and a Bayesian methodology to derive robust structural parameters of the inner Halo (<25 kpc) and Thick Disc of the Milky Way. RR Lyrae stars are an unequivocal tracer of old metal-poor populations, for which accurate distances and extinctions can be individually estimated and so, are a reliable independent means of tracing the population of the old high-[α/Fe] disc usually associated to the Thick Disc. In particular, the chosen RR Lyrae sample spans regions at low galactic latitude toward the anti-center direction, allowing to probe the outermost parts of the disc. Our results favour a Thick Disc with short scale height and short scale length, $h_z=0.65_{-0.05}^{+0.09}$ kpc, $h_R=2.1_{-0.25}^{+0.82}$ kpc, for a model in which the inner Halo has a constant flattening of $q=0.90_{-0.03}^{+0.05}$ and a power law index of $n=-2.78_{-0.05}^{+0.05}$. Similar short scales for the Thick Disc are also found when considering an inner Halo with flattening dependent on radius. We also explored a model in which the Thick Disc has a flare and, although this is only mildly constrained by our data, a flare onset in the inner $\sim11$ kpc is highly disfavoured.

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