Bibcode
Hayes, C. R.; Majewski, Steven R.; Hasselquist, Sten; Beaton, Rachael L.; Cunha, Katia; Smith, Verne V.; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Anguiano, Borja; Beers, Timothy C.; Carrera, Ricardo; Fernández-Trincado, J. G.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; García-Hernández, D. A.; Lane, Richard R.; Nidever, David L.; Nitschelm, Christian; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Zamora, O.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 859, Issue 1, article id. L8, 7 pp. (2018).
Fecha de publicación:
5
2018
Número de citas
24
Número de citas referidas
24
Descripción
The nature of the Triangulum-Andromeda (TriAnd) system has been debated
since the discovery of this distant, low-latitude Milky Way (MW)
overdensity more than a decade ago. Explanations for its origin are
either as a halo substructure from the disruption of a dwarf galaxy, or
a distant extension of the Galactic disk. We test these hypotheses using
the chemical abundances of a dozen TriAnd members from the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey-IV’s (SDSS-IV’s) 14th Data Release (DR14) of
Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) data to
compare to APOGEE abundances of stars with similar metallicity from both
the Sagittarius (Sgr) dSph and the outer MW disk. We find that TriAnd
stars are chemically distinct from Sgr across a variety of elements,
(C+N), Mg, K, Ca, Mn, and Ni, with a separation in [X/Fe] of about 0.1
to 0.4 dex depending on the element. Instead, the TriAnd stars, with a
median metallicity of about ‑0.8, exhibit chemical abundance
ratios similar to those of the lowest metallicity ([Fe/H] ∼
‑0.7) stars in the outer Galactic disk, and are consistent with
expectations of extrapolated chemical gradients in the outer disk of the
MW. These results suggest that TriAnd is associated with the MW disk,
and, therefore, that the disk extends to this overdensity—i.e.,
past a Galactocentric radius of 24 kpc—albeit vertically perturbed
about 7 kpc below the nominal disk midplane in this region of the
Galaxy.
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