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arXiv 2007.10374astro-ph.GA
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来自APOGEE的证据,表明存在一个埋在银河系内部的晕的主要组成部分

Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy

Danny Horta, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth, Joel Pfeffer, Andrew C. Mason, Shobhit Kisku, Francesca Fragkoudi, Carlos Allende Prieto, Katia Cunha, Sten … 展开作者

Danny Horta, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth, Joel Pfeffer, Andrew C. Mason, Shobhit Kisku, Francesca Fragkoudi, Carlos Allende Prieto, Katia Cunha, Sten Hasselquist, Jon Holtzman, Steven R. Majewski, David Nataf, Robert W. O'Connell, Mathias Schultheis, Verne V. Smith

摘要:

我们报告了来自远地点的证据,证明在银河系中心$\sim$ 4~kpc范围内存在一个新的贫金属恒星结构。这种新的星系内部结构(IGS)的化学成分类似于银河系低质量卫星的化学成分,似乎是从化学和动力学上与银河系内部更富含金属的种群分离的。我们推测,这种结构与可能发生在银河系早期生命中的吸积事件有关。通过比较这个结构的平均元素丰度与宇宙学数值模拟的预测,我们估计这个祖先系统的恒星质量为$\sim5\times10^8M_\odot$,大约是最近发现的盖亚-土卫二/香肠系统质量的两倍。我们发现,在我们的贫金属([Fe/H] $<$-0.8)的膨胀样品中的吸积:{ \it原位}比是在1:3和1:2之间的某个地方,证实了宇宙学数值模拟的预测由不同的团体。

英文摘要:

We report evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a new metal-poor stellar structure located within $\sim$4~kpc of the Galactic centre. Characterised by a chemical composition resembling those of low mass satellites of the Milky Way, this new inner Galaxy structure (IGS) seems to be chemically and dynamically detached from more metal-rich populations in the inner Galaxy. We conjecture that this structure is associated with an accretion event that likely occurred in the early life of the Milky Way. Comparing the mean elemental abundances of this structure with predictions from cosmological numerical simulations, we estimate that the progenitor system had a stellar mass of $\sim5\times10^8M_\odot$, or approximately twice the mass of the recently discovered Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage system. We find that the accreted:{\it in situ} ratio within our metal-poor ([Fe/H]$<$--0.8) bulge sample is somewhere between 1:3 and 1:2, confirming predictions of cosmological numerical simulations by various groups.

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