The GALAH Survey: No chemical evidence of an extragalactic origin for the Nyx stream
| Autor: | Sven Buder, Martin Asplund, Yuan-Sen Ting, Jonathan Horner, Janez Kos, Michael R. Hayden, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Geraint F. Lewis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Tomaž Zwitter, Jeffrey D. Simpson, Valentina D'Orazi, Sanjib Sharma, Daniel B. Zucker, Karin Lind, Jane Lin, Thomas Nordlander, Kenneth C. Freeman, Gayandhi M. De Silva, Sarah L. Martell, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Andrew R. Casey, Dennis Stello |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Milky Way Astronomy FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics 01 natural sciences Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Accretion (astrophysics) Space and Planetary Science Observatory Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) 0103 physical sciences Thick disk Substructure Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Halo Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Dwarf galaxy |
| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2104.08684 |
| Popis: | The results from the ESA Gaia astrometric mission and deep photometric surveys have revolutionized our knowledge of the Milky Way. There are many ongoing efforts to search these data for stellar substructure to find evidence of individual accretion events that built up the Milky Way and its halo. One of these newly identified features, called Nyx, was announced as an accreted stellar stream traveling in the plane of the disk. Using a combination of elemental abundances and stellar parameters from the GALAH and APOGEE surveys, we find that the abundances of the highest likelihood Nyx members are entirely consistent with membership of the thick disk, and inconsistent with a dwarf galaxy origin. We conclude that the postulated Nyx stream is most probably a high-velocity component of the Milky Way's thick disk. With the growing availability of large data sets including kinematics, stellar parameters, and detailed abundances, the probability of detecting chance associations increases, and hence new searches for substructure require confirmation across as many data dimensions as possible. Comment: Accepted for publication by ApJ Letters |
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