Identifying RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Six Years of the Dark Energy Survey
K. M. Stringer, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Macri, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, A. K. Vivas, P. Ferguson, A. B. Pace, A. R. Walker, E. Neilsen, K. Tavangar, W. Wester, T. M… 展开作者
K. M. Stringer, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Macri, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, A. K. Vivas, P. Ferguson, A. B. Pace, A. R. Walker, E. Neilsen, K. Tavangar, W. Wester, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. Allam, D. Bacon, K. Bechtol, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, M. Crocce, L. N. da Costa, M. E. S. Pereira, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, I. Ferrero, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, B. Hoyle, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, T. S. Li, M. A. G. Maia, J. L. Marshall, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, R. Morgan, R. L. C. Ogando, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón, A. A. Plazas, A. Roodman, E. Sanchez, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, C. To, T. N. Varga, R. D. Wilkinson, Y. Zhang, the DES Collaboration
We present a search for RR Lyrae stars using the full six-year data set from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering ~5,000 sq. deg. of the southern sky. Using a multi-stage multi-variate classification and light curve template-fitting scheme, we identify RR Lyrae candidates with a median of 35 observations per candidate. We detect 6,971 RR Lyrae candidates out to ~335 kpc, and we estimate that our sample is >70% complete at ~150 kpc. We find excellent agreement with other wide-area RR Lyrae catalogs and RR Lyrae studies targeting the Magellanic Clouds and other Milky Way satellite galaxies. We fit the smooth stellar halo density profile using a broken-power-law model with fixed halo flattening (q = 0.7), and we find strong evidence for a break at $R_0 = 32.1^{+1.1}_{-0.9}$ kpc with an inner slope of $n_1 = -2.54^{+0.09}_{-0.09}$ and an outer slope of $n_2 = -5.42^{+0.13}_{-0.14}$. We use our catalog to perform a search for Milky Way satellite galaxies with large sizes and low luminosities. Using a set of simulated satellite galaxies, we find that our RR Lyrae-based search is more sensitive than those using resolved stellar populations in the regime of large ($r_h > 500$ pc), low-surface-brightness dwarf galaxies. A blind search for large, diffuse satellites yields three candidate substructures. The first can be confidently associated with the dwarf galaxy Eridanus II. The second has a similar distance and proper motion to the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Tucana II but is separated by ~5 deg. The third is close in projection to the globular cluster NGC 1851 but is ~10 kpc more distant and appears to differ in proper motion.
The Kinematic Properties of BHB and RR Lyrae stars towards the Anticentre and the North Galactic Pole: The Transition between the Inner and the Outer Halo
我们在Anticentre场中识别出51颗蓝色水平支星(BHB),12颗可能的BHB星和58颗RR型天琴座星。它们的选择不取决于它们的运动学。给出了7颗未知天琴座RR型星的光变曲线和星历表。除了4颗天琴座RR型星外,其余都是奥斯特霍夫I型星。我们对BHB星的选择标准给出的结果与Smith et al.(2010)和Ruhland et al.(2011)使用的结果一致。我们使用5种方法来确定BHB星的距离和3种方法来确定RR天琴座星的距离。这些恒星的绝对自行(主要来自GSCII和SDSS(DR 7)数据库); 31颗BHB星和37颗RR Lyrics星的径向速度。结合这些数据的BHB和RR天琴座恒星与以前发现的领域在北银河系极点,我们发现,逆行轨道占主导地位的银河系中心距离大于12.5千秒差距。已知太阳附近的大多数贫金属恒星都集中在Lperp与Lz角动量图中。我们发现,在主浓度的异常值的数量的比例增加与galactocentric距离。这些异常值与Lperp和Lz的位置表明,晕BHB和RR天琴座星有更多的逆行轨道和更球形的分布随着银河系的距离增加。六颗RR型天琴座恒星被确认在H99的异常群中;它们的[Fe/H]的微小分布表明它们可能来自一个单一的球状星团。另一组异常值包含两对天琴座RR型恒星,每对恒星都有相似的性质。
A clustering-based search for substructures in the Galactic plane and bulge using RR Lyrae stars as tracers
Université Côte d’Azur(蔚蓝海岸大学);Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur(蔚蓝海岸天文台);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);Laboratoire Lagrange(拉格朗日实验室);Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile(智利天主教宗座大学天体物理研究所);Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Espacio y Física Teórica, Universidad Central de Chile(智利中央大学空间科学与理论物理研究中心);Millennium Institute of Astrophysics(天体物理学千年研究所)
Weak Galactic halo--dwarf spheroidal connection from RR Lyrae stars
我们讨论的作用,矮星系可能发挥的星系晕(晕)的形成使用RR天琴座恒星(RRL)作为其古老的恒星成分的示踪剂。比较是使用两个观测值(周期,光度振幅)是红化和距离无关。6个矮椭球体和11个超暗矮星系(1,300个)的基模RRL显示出高斯周期分布,其峰值在平均周期<Pab>=0.610+-0.001天(sigma=0.03)附近。Halo RRL(15,000)的特点是周期分布更广。除人马座外,所有矮椭球体的基本模式RRL都完全缺乏高振幅短周期(HASP)变星,定义为< 0.48 days and Av>P0.75等。这样的变星在光环星系、球状星团和大质量矮不规则星系中并不少见。为了进一步解释这一证据,我们考虑了18个球状星团,它们的金属丰度范围很广(-2.3< [Fe/H]< -1.1),每个球状星团的RRL都超过35。金属丰度被证明是主要参数,因为在HASP区域中,只有比[Fe/H] -1.5宿主RRL更富金属的球状体。这一发现表明,类似于幸存者的dSphs似乎并不是光环的主要组成部分。主要的物理论据表明,它们的贡献的上限为50%。另一方面,大质量的矮星拥有一个古老的人口与广泛的金属丰度分布(大麦云,人马座)可能发挥了主要作用的形成晕。
Probing the Milky Way Halo with RR Lyrae Stars from Gaia Data Release 3
INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚天文台与空间科学观测站);Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia-Universitá di Bologna(博洛尼亚大学物理与天文系);Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts(卢塞恩应用科学与艺术大学);TOELT LLC(TOELT有限责任公司)
Identification of RR Lyrae stars in multiband, sparsely-sampled data from the Dark Energy Survey using template fitting and Random Forest classification
Systematic census of RR Lyrae stars in Milky Way stellar streams
Universidad de la República(拉普拉塔共和国大学);National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(日本国立天文台);Universidad de La Laguna(拉帕尔马大学);Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利群岛天体物理研究所)