The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (${S}^5$): Overview, Target Selection, Data Reduction, Validation, and Early Science
T. S. Li, S. E. Koposov, D. B. Zucker, G. F. Lewis, K. Kuehn, J. D. Simpson, A. P. Ji, N. Shipp, Y. -Y. Mao, M. Geha, A. B. Pace, A. D. Mackey, S. Allam, D. L. … 展开作者
T. S. Li, S. E. Koposov, D. B. Zucker, G. F. Lewis, K. Kuehn, J. D. Simpson, A. P. Ji, N. Shipp, Y. -Y. Mao, M. Geha, A. B. Pace, A. D. Mackey, S. Allam, D. L. Tucker, G. S. Da Costa, D. Erkal, J. D. Simon, J. R. Mould, S. L. Martell, Z. Wan, G. M. De Silva, K. Bechtol, E. Balbinot, V. Belokurov, J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. R. Casey, L. Cullinane, A. Drlica-Wagner, S. Sharma, A. K. Vivas, R. H. Wechsler, B. Yanny
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25 pages, 14 figures (1 in appendix), 3 tables (1 in appendix). Published on MNRAS. See also paper from Shipp et al. 2019, which measures the proper motion of the DES streams
我们介绍了南方恒星流光谱调查(${S}^5$),一个正在进行的计划,以绘制南半球恒星流的运动学和化学。${S}^5$最初的重点是对最近在暗能量调查(DES)足迹内确定的流进行光谱观测,最终目标是调查整个南部天空的流。恒星流是由从矮星系和球状星团中被潮汐剥离的物质组成的,因此是银河系引力势的极好的动力学探测器,也提供了其吸积历史的详细快照。使用3.9米英澳望远镜的2度场光纤定位器和AAOmega摄谱仪进行观测,并将DES DR 1的精确测光与$Gaia$ DR 2的极好自行相结合,使我们能够进行有效的光谱测量来绘制这些恒星流。到目前为止,${S}^5$已经绘制了9个DES流和3个DES外流;前者是这些最近发现的流的第一次光谱观测。除了流调查,我们使用备用光纤进行银河系晕调查和低红移星系调查。本文概述了${S}^5$计划,描述了调查的科学动机,目标选择,观测策略,数据减少和调查验证。最后,我们描述了早期的科学成果恒星流和银河系晕星从调查得出。有关${S}^5$的更新,包括未来的公共数据发布,可在\url{http://s5collab.github.io}上找到。
英文摘要:
We introduce the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopy Survey (${S}^5$), an on-going program to map the kinematics and chemistry of stellar streams in the Southern Hemisphere. The initial focus of ${S}^5$ has been spectroscopic observations of recently identified streams within the footprint of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), with the eventual goal of surveying streams across the entire southern sky. Stellar streams are composed of material that has been tidally striped from dwarf galaxies and globular clusters and hence are excellent dynamical probes of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way, as well as providing a detailed snapshot of its accretion history. Observing with the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope's 2-degree-Field fibre positioner and AAOmega spectrograph, and combining the precise photometry of DES DR1 with the superb proper motions from $Gaia$ DR2, allows us to conduct an efficient spectroscopic survey to map these stellar streams. So far ${S}^5$ has mapped 9 DES streams and 3 streams outside of DES; the former are the first spectroscopic observations of these recently discovered streams. In addition to the stream survey, we use spare fibres to undertake a Milky Way halo survey and a low-redshift galaxy survey. This paper presents an overview of the ${S}^5$ program, describing the scientific motivation for the survey, target selection, observation strategy, data reduction and survey validation. Finally, we describe early science results on stellar streams and Milky Way halo stars drawn from the survey. Updates on ${S}^5$, including future public data release, can be found at \url{http://s5collab.github.io}.
The Sagittarius Streams in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8分析了南银河半球人马座流的结构。与人马座潮汐轨道平行,但距离约10度,有另一个更暗,更贫金属流。我们提供的证据表明,这两个流遵循类似的距离梯度,但有不同的形态学特性和恒星星族。较亮的星流较宽,包含更多富含金属的恒星,并且与较暗的星流相比,具有更丰富的颜色-星等图,有多个转折点和一个突出的红色团块。根据结构性质和恒星星族混合,流的配置类似于北方的“分叉”。在南银河帽区域,有来自鲸鱼座流的潮汐碎片重叠,它穿过人马座流。使用光度和光谱数据,我们表明,蓝色离散人口主要属于人马座和蓝色水平分支恒星主要属于鲸鱼座流在这个混乱的位置在晕。
The dynamics of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies and stellar streams
作为Z-PAndAS Keck II DEIMOS对我们邻近星系仙女座(M31)中已分辨恒星的调查的一部分,我们已经建立了一个独特的数据集,测量了仙女座恒星晕中数千颗恒星的速度和化学成分,特别是探测其丰富而复杂的子结构。在这篇文章中,我们将讨论仙女座矮球状星系的结构,动力学和化学性质,以及如何没有观测证据表明在M31巨大的卫星平面上和卫星平面外发现的那些星系的演化历史存在差异。我们还将讨论M31中最重要的合并事件-巨型南流-的可能扩展,以及我们如何利用这一特征来完善我们对M31质量分布及其复杂演化的理解。
The DECam MAGIC Survey $-$ Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK: Overview and Summary of Early Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, Stanford University(斯坦福大学卡弗里粒子天体物理与宇宙学研究所);Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(费米国家加速器实验室);Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学卡弗里宇宙物理学研究所);Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学天文与天体物理系);NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI)(NSF-Simons天空人工智能研究所);Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学天文学系);Department of Astronomy, Yale University(耶鲁大学天文学系);Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas(圣保罗大学天文、地球物理与大气科学学院);Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá(塔拉帕卡大学高级研究所)
Sifting for a Stream: The Morphology of the $300S$ Stellar Stream
University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);University of Washington(华盛顿大学);University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学);University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(费米国家加速器实验室);University of Toronto(多伦多大学)
A Long Stellar Stream in M83: Possible Connection Between XUV Disks and Minor Mergers?
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(日本国立天文台);The Institute of Statistical Mathematics(统计数学研究所);Hosei University(法政大学);Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(昴星团望远镜,日本国立天文台);The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)(综合研究大学院大学(SOKENDAI));Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学天文研究所);Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University(东北大学天文研究所);Stony Brook University(石溪大学);National Institute of Technology, Sendai College(仙台工业高等专门学校)
Tracing the very early disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the distant Milky Way halo
University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学);University of Victoria(维多利亚大学);Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian(哈佛-史密森天体物理中心);Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie(马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学卡弗里宇宙物理学研究所);Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利群岛天体物理研究所);Universidad de La Laguna(拉古纳大学)
Epicyclic Density Variations in the Indus Stellar Stream
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto(多伦多大学天文与天体物理系);Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto(多伦多大学邓普天文与天体物理研究所);Data Sciences Institute, University of Toronto(多伦多大学数据科学研究所);School of Physics, University of New South Wales(新南威尔士大学物理学院);Department of Physics, University of Surrey(萨里大学物理系);Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学天文与天体物理系);Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学卡弗里宇宙物理研究所);Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学天文研究所);Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学天文研究所)