Revealing the Complicated Story of the Cetus Stream with StarGO

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab2e09

	Revealing the Complicated Story of the Cetus Stream with StarGO
	Yuan,Zhen 1; Smith,M. C.1; Xue,Xiang-Xiang 2; Li,Jing1,3 ; Liu,Chao 2; Wang,Yue 2; Li,Lu 1,4; Chang,Jiang 2,5
刊名	The Astrophysical Journal
	2019-08-23
卷号	881 期号:2
关键词	galaxies: formation galaxies: halos galaxies: kinematics and dynamics methods: data analysis
ISSN号	0004-637X
DOI	10.3847/1538-4357/ab2e09
英文摘要	Abstract We use a novel cluster identification tool, StarGO, to explore the metal-poor ([Fe/H] < ?1.5) outer stellar halo (d > 15 kpc) of the Milky Way using data from Gaia, LAMOST, and SDSS. Our method is built using an unsupervised learning algorithm, a self-organizing map, which trains a 2D neural network to learn the topological structures of a data set from an n-D input space. Using a 4D space of angular momentum and orbital energy, we identify three distinct groups corresponding to the Sagittarius, Orphan, and Cetus Streams. For the first time we are able to discover a northern counterpart to the Cetus Stream (CS). We test the robustness of this new detection using mock data and find that the significance is more than 5σ. We also find that the existing southern counterpart bifurcates into two clumps with different radial velocities. By exploiting the visualization power of StarGO, we attach MW globular clusters (GCs) to the same trained neural network. The Sagittarius stream is found to have five related clusters, confirming recent literature studies, and the CS has one associated cluster, NGC 5824. This latter association has previously been postulated, but can only now be truly confirmed thanks to the high-precision Gaia proper motions and large numbers of stellar spectra from LAMOST. The large metallicity dispersion of the stream indicates that the progenitor cannot be a GC. Given the mean metallicity of the stream, we propose that the stream is the result of a merger of a low-mass dwarf galaxy that is associated with a massive GC (NGC 5824).
语种	英语
出版者	The American Astronomical Society
WOS记录号	IOP:0004-637X-881-2-AB2E09
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/27262]
专题	中国科学院紫金山天文台
作者单位	1.Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, People’s Republic of China; sala.yuan@gmail.com, lijing@shao.ac.cn 2.Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China 3.Physics and Space Science College, China West Normal University, 1 ShiDa Road, Nanchong 637002, People’s Republic of China 4.University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China 5.Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS, No.8 Yuanhua Road, Qixia District, Nanjing 210034, People’s Republic of China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yuan,Zhen,Smith,M. C.,Xue,Xiang-Xiang,et al. Revealing the Complicated Story of the Cetus Stream with StarGO[J]. The Astrophysical Journal,2019,881(2).
APA	Yuan,Zhen.,Smith,M. C..,Xue,Xiang-Xiang.,Li,Jing.,Liu,Chao.,...&Chang,Jiang.(2019).Revealing the Complicated Story of the Cetus Stream with StarGO.The Astrophysical Journal,881(2).
MLA	Yuan,Zhen,et al."Revealing the Complicated Story of the Cetus Stream with StarGO".The Astrophysical Journal 881.2(2019).