The Origin of High-velocity Stars from Gaia and LAMOST

Du, Cuihua and Li, Hefan and Newberg, Heidi Jo and Chen, Yuqin and Shi, Jianrong and Wu, Zhenyu and Ma, Jun (2018) The Origin of High-velocity Stars from Gaia and LAMOST. The Astrophysical Journal, 869 (2). L31. ISSN 2041-8213

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Abstract

Based on the second Gaia data release and spectroscopy from the Large Sky Area Multi-object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Data Release 5, we define the high-velocity (HiVel) stars sample as those stars with vgc > 0.85vesc, and derived the final sample of 24 HiVel stars with stellar astrometric parameters and radial velocities. Most of the HiVel stars are metal poor and α-enhanced. In order to further explore the origin of these HiVel stars, we traced the backward orbits of each HiVel star in the Galactic potential to derive probability parameters that are used to classify these HiVel stars. Of these, 5 stars are from the tidal debris of disrupted dwarf galaxy, and 19 stars are runaway-star candidates originating from the stellar disk.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Librbary Digital > Physics and Astronomy
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Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2023 07:57
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2024 09:16
URI: http://info.openarchivelibrary.com/id/eprint/849

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