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化学选择吸积的Milky Way晕星的年龄和运动学

Ages and kinematics of chemically selected, accreted Milky Way halo stars

Payel Das, Keith Hawkins, Paula Jofre

摘要:

我们利用[Mg/Mn]-[Al/Fe]化学丰度平面来帮助识别在APOGEE调查的第14次数据发布中已经吸积到银河系上的附近晕星。应用高斯混合模型,我们发现了一个'斑点'的856可能吸积星,低光盘污染率~ 7%。将样本与盖亚的第二次数据发布进行交叉匹配,使我们能够获得视差和视星等,这对距离和内在光度产生了限制。使用贝叶斯等时线管道,这使我们能够估计吸积恒星的新年龄,典型的不确定性约为20%。我们的新目录进一步补充了轨道参数的估计。团状星的金属丰度介于-0.5至-2.5之间,[Mg/Fe]介于-0.1至0.5之间。它们在金属丰度约为-1.4的贫金属([Fe/H] < -0.8)晕中占约30%。我们的新年龄主要在8到13 Gyr之间,最古老的恒星金属最少,[Mg/Fe]丰度最高。如果假设这些球状恒星属于一个单一的祖先,那么年龄意味着该系统在大约8 Gyr前与我们的银河系合并,恒星形成进行了大约5 Gyr。动力学参数表明,这样一个单一的祖先将有~ 1011 Msun的总质量,类似于其他作者使用化学演化模型和模拟发现的结果。将斑点星的[Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H]平面的散射与测量到的属于大麦云云的恒星的散射进行比较,表明斑点星确实只包含来自一个祖先的恒星。

英文摘要:

We exploit the [Mg/Mn]-[Al/Fe] chemical abundance plane to help identify nearby halo stars in the 14th data release from the APOGEE survey that have been accreted on to the Milky Way. Applying a Gaussian Mixture Model, we find a `blob' of 856 likely accreted stars, with a low disc contamination rate of ~7%. Cross-matching the sample with the second data release from Gaia gives us access to parallaxes and apparent magnitudes, which place constraints on distances and intrinsic luminosities. Using a Bayesian isochrone pipeline, this enables us to estimate new ages for the accreted stars, with typical uncertainties of ~20%. Our new catalogue is further supplemented with estimates of orbital parameters. The blob stars span a metallicities between -0.5 to -2.5, and [Mg/Fe] between -0.1 to 0.5. They constitute ~30% of the metal-poor ([Fe/H] < -0.8) halo at metallicities of ~-1.4. Our new ages are mainly range between 8 to 13 Gyr, with the oldest stars the metal-poorest, and with the highest [Mg/Fe] abundance. If the blob stars are assumed to belong to a single progenitor, the ages imply that the system merged with our Milky Way around 8 Gyr ago and that star formation proceeded for ~5 Gyr. Dynamical arguments suggest that such a single progenitor would have a total mass of ~1011Msun, similar to that found by other authors using chemical evolution models and simulations. Comparing the scatter in the [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane of the blob stars to that measured for stars belonging to the Large Magellanic Cloud suggests that the blob does indeed contain stars from only one progenitor.

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