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arXiv 2012.09204astro-ph.GA
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仙女座从盖亚的自行eDR3:确认近径向轨道

The proper motion of Andromeda from Gaia eDR3: confirming a nearly radial orbit

J. -B. Salomon, R. Ibata, C. Reylé, B. Famaey, N. I. Libeskind, A. W. McConnachie, Y. Hoffman

摘要:

我们提出了一个分析的自行仙女座星系(M31),根据早期的第三次数据发布的盖亚任务。我们使用盖亚测光选择年轻的蓝色主序星,并应用几个质量削减,以获得干净的样品,这些示踪剂。在修正了M31盘运动的内部旋转的自行测量值后,我们得到了相对于盖亚参考系的52.5 +/- 5.8 μ as/yr的视运动,或者在应用了从M31的20度以内的类星体确定的零点修正和系统偏差的修正后,得到了61.9 +/- 9.7 μ as/yr的视运动。考虑到太阳反射运动,我们推导出仙女座星系和银河系之间的相对速度(在当前太阳位置的非旋转框架中)沿赤经为42.2 +/- 39.3 km/s(沿银河经度为40.0 +/- 39.3 km/s),沿十度角为-59.4 +/- 30.3 km/s(沿银纬为-60.9 +/- 30.3 km/s),总横向速度为V_transs = 82.4 +/- 31.2 km/s。这些数值与早期哈勃太空望远镜的测量结果一致(但比之更准确),后者预测了两个星系未来的合并。我们还注意到,在M31中的蓝色恒星和似乎位于该星系中的红色恒星样本之间,推导出的自行之间存在惊人的巨大差异。我们提出了几个假设来解释这种差异,但没有发现明确的证据与目前的数据特权的任何一个。

英文摘要:

We present an analysis of the proper motion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), based on the Early Third Data Release of the Gaia mission. We use the Gaia photometry to select young blue main sequence stars, and apply several quality cuts to obtain clean samples of these tracers. After correcting the proper motion measurements for the internal rotation of the M31 disk motion, we derive an apparent motion of 52.5 +/- 5.8 muas/yr with respect to the Gaia reference frame, or 61.9 +/- 9.7 muas/yr after applying a zero-point correction determined from quasars within 20 degrees from M31 and a correction from systemic biases. Accounting for the Solar reflex motion we deduce a relative velocity between Andromeda and the Milky way (in a non-rotating frame at the current location of the Sun) of 42.2 +/- 39.3 km/s along right ascension (40.0 +/- 39.3 km/s along galactic longitude) and -59.4 +/- 30.3 km/s along declination (-60.9 +/- 30.3 km/s along galactic latitude), with a total transverse velocity of V_trans = 82.4 +/- 31.2 km/s. These values are consistent with (but more accurate than) earlier Hubble Space Telescope measurements that predict a future merger between the two galaxies. We also note a surprisingly large difference in the derived proper motion between the blue stars in M31 and samples of red stars that appear to lie in that galaxy. We propose several hypotheses to explain the discrepancy but found no clear evidence with the current data to privilege any one of them.

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