Constraints on the assembly history of the Milky Way's smooth, diffuse stellar halo from the metallicity-dependent, radially-dominated velocity anisotropy profiles probed with K giants and BHB stars using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia
Sarah A. Bird, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu, Juntai Shen, Chris Flynn, Chengqun Yang, Gang Zhao, Hai-Jun Tian
We analyze the anisotropy profile of the Milky Way's smooth, diffuse stellar halo using SDSS/SEGUE blue horizontal branch stars and SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST K giants. These intrinsically luminous stars allow us to probe the halo to approximately 100 kpc from the Galactic center. Line-of-sight velocities, distances, metallicities, and proper motions are available for all stars via SDSS/SEGUE, LAMOST, and Gaia, and we use these data to construct a full 7D set consisting of positions, space motions, and metallicity. We remove substructure from our samples using integrals of motion based on the method of Xue et al. We find radially dominated kinematic profiles with nearly constant anisotropy within 20 kpc, beyond which the anisotropy profile gently declines although remains radially dominated to the furthest extents of our sample. Independent of star type or substructure removal, the anisotropy depends on metallicity, such that the orbits of the stars become less radial with decreasing metallicity. For $-1.7<$ [Fe/H] $<-1$, the smooth, diffuse halo anisotropy profile begins to decline at Galactocentric distances $\sim20$ kpc, from $β\sim0.9$ to 0.7 for K giants and from $β\sim0.8$ to 0.1 for blue horizontal branch stars. For [Fe/H] $<-1.7$, the smooth, diffuse halo anisotropy remains constant along all distances with $0.2<β<0.7$ depending on the metallicity range probed, although independent on star type. These samples are ideal for estimating the total Galactic mass as they represent the virialized stellar halo system.
Milky Way Mass with K Giants and BHB Stars Using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia: 3D Spherical Jeans Equation and Tracer Mass Estimator
China Three Gorges University（三峡大学）；CAS Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院国家天文台光学天文重点实验室）；Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海天文台）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Key Laboratory of Space Astronomy and Technology, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院国家天文台空间天文与技术重点实验室）；Swinburne University of Technology（斯威本科技大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MOE) / Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology（粒子天体物理与宇宙学教育部重点实验室/上海粒子物理与宇宙学重点实验室）；Key Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院国家天文台计算天体物理重点实验室）；Chinese Academy of Sciences South America Center for Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院南美天文中心）
Revisit NGC 5466 Tidal Stream with $Gaia$, SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST
通过对$Gaia$ EDR 3、SDSS/SEGUE DR 16和LAMOST DR 8的数据挖掘，发现了NGC 5466潮汐流的11颗成员星，其中7颗是新发现的。为了剔除污染物，在天空位置、色星等图、金属丰度、自行和径向速度等方面进行了各种切割。我们将我们的数据与模拟流进行比较，模拟流是通过模拟星系团在平滑的银河系势加上大麦云云（LMC）下的破裂而产生的。模型和观测结果之间相空间的一致趋势意味着流可能受到LMC的扰动。在11颗被探测到的成员中，最远的两颗星的长度可以追溯到天空的$60^\circ$，支持并延长了先前的$45^\circ$的长度。考虑到NGC 5466是如此遥远，并且可能有比以前认为的更长的尾巴，我们预计NGC 5466潮汐流可能是限制银河系引力场的有用工具。
MSFA-Net: An Advanced Deep Learning Model for Identifying Blue Horizontal-Branch Stars from LAMOST DR12
School of Airspace Science and Engineering, Shandong University（山东大学空天科学与工程学院）；Shandong Key Laboratory of Space Environment and Exploration Technology, Institute of Space Sciences, School of Space Science and Technology, Shandong University（山东大学空间科学与技术学院空间科学研究所）；School of Sciences, Hebei University of Science and Technology（河北科技大学理学院）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University（山东大学数学与统计学院）；Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology Adelaide University An De College, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology（西安建筑科技大学阿德莱德大学安德学院）
Contribution of Gaia Sausage to the Galactic Stellar Halo Revealed by K Giants and Blue Horizontal Branch Stars from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and Gaia
Characterizing the velocity anisotropy of the Milky Way's stellar halo
Universidade de São Paulo（圣保罗大学）；Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México（墨西哥国立自治大学天文学研究所）；Universidade Federal de Goiás（戈亚斯联邦大学）；Observatório Nacional, MCTI（国家天文台，巴西科技部）；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（芝加哥大学天文学与天体物理系）
StarHorse results for spectroscopic surveys + Gaia DR3: Chrono-chemical populations in the solar vicinity, the genuine thick disk, and young-alpha rich stars
