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2017MNRAS.469L..78M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 469, L78-L82 (2017/July-3)

A halo substructure in Gaia Data Release 1.

MYEONG G.C., EVANS N.W., BELOKUROV V., KOPOSOV S.E. and SANDERS J.L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We identify a halo substructure in the Tycho Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) data set, cross-matched with the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE-on) data release. After quality cuts, the stars with large radial action (JR > 800 km s–1 kpc) are extracted. A subset of these stars is clustered in longitude and velocity and can be selected with further cuts. The 14 stars are centred on (X, Y, Z) ≃ (9.0, -1.0, -0.6) kpc and form a coherently moving structure in the halo with median (vR, vph, vz) = (167.33, 0.86, -94.85) km s–1. They are all metal-poor giants with median [Fe/H] = -0.83. To guard against the effects of distance errors, we compute spectrophotometric distances for 8 out of the 14 stars where this is possible. We find that six of the stars are still comoving. These six stars also have a much tighter [Fe/H] distribution ∼-0.7 with one exception ([Fe/H] = -2.12). We conclude that the existence of the comoving cluster is stable against changes in distance estimation and conjecture that this is the dissolving remnant of a globular cluster accreted long ago.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: structure - galaxies: structure

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