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银河系核球的盘起源:论低纬度富金属恒星的高速度弥散

The disc origin of the Milky Way bulge: On the high velocity dispersion of metal-rich stars at low latitude

Tristan Boin, Paola Di Matteo, Sergey Khoperskov, Francesca Fragkoudi, Soumavo Ghosh, Françoise Combes, Misha Haywood, David Katz

AI总结:

本研究结合APOGEE DR17数据与类银河系N体模拟,证实核球视线速度弥散-纬度关系的反转由盒状/花生状核球的盘起源(富金属星源于薄盘、贫金属星源于厚盘)及观测角度效应共同导致。

摘要:

此前对银河系核球星 chemo-kinematic 性质的研究揭示了一个令人困惑的趋势:沿核球短轴且靠近银道面处,富金属恒星的视线速度弥散高于贫金属恒星;而在更高纬度处,富金属恒星的速度弥散低于贫金属恒星,这与银河系盘的情况类似。本研究利用最新的 APOGEE 第17次数据发布(Data Release 17),重新审视了视线速度弥散与金属丰度、纬度的依赖关系,证实了此前的结果。随后,我们分析了一个类银河系的 N体模拟,并考虑了 APOGEE 选择函数引入的观测偏差。研究表明,核球中观测到的视线速度弥散-纬度关系的反转可被我们的模型重现。这种反转是核球为盒状/花生状结构这一情景的自然结果:核球中的富金属恒星和贫金属恒星分别主要起源于银河系的薄盘和厚盘。由于冷运动学特性,富金属薄盘恒星被有效捕获在盒状/花生状核球中,在低纬度处表现出比贫金属恒星更大的高速度弥散。文献中重新受到关注的核球极端富金属恒星也遵循与富金属恒星群体相同的趋势。因此,核球中贫金属和富金属恒星的视线速度-纬度关系既是核球内在性质的体现,也是我们从太阳视角观测它的角度效应所致。

英文摘要:

Previous studies of the chemo-kinematic properties of stars in the Galactic bulge have revealed a puzzling trend. Along the bulge minor axis, and close to the Galactic plane, metal-rich stars display a higher line-of-sight velocity dispersion compared to metal-poor stars, while at higher latitudes metal-rich stars have lower velocity dispersions than metal-poor stars, similar to what is found in the Galactic disc. In this work, we re-examine this issue, by studying the dependence of line-of-sight velocity dispersions on metallicity and latitude in the latest APOGEE Data Release 17, confirming the results of previous works. We then analyse an N-body simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy, also taking into account observational biases introduced by the APOGEE selection function. We show that the inversion in the line-of-sight velocity dispersion-latitude relation observed in the Galactic bulge can be reproduced by our model. We show that this inversion is a natural consequence of a scenario in which the bulge is a boxy/peanut-shaped structure, whose metal-rich and metal-poor stars mainly originate from the thin and thick disc of the Milky Way, respectively. Due to their cold kinematics, metal-rich, thin disc stars, are efficiently trapped in the boxy/peanut bulge, and, at low latitudes, show a strong barred morphology, which results in high velocity dispersions which are larger than those attained by the metal-poor populations. Extremely metal-rich stars in the Galactic bulge, which have received renewed attention in the literature, do follow the same trends as those of the metal-rich populations. The line-of-sight velocity-latitude relation observed in the Galactic bulge for metal-poor and metal-rich stars are thus both an effect of the intrinsic nature of the Galactic bulge and of the angle at which we observe it from the Sun.

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