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| author | Hong, Jihye Beers, Timothy C. Lee, Young Sun Huang, Yang Hirai, Yutaka Garcia, Jonathan Cabrera Shank, Derek Xu, Shuai Yuan, Haibo Mardini, Mohammad K. Catapano, Thomas Zhao, Gang Fan, Zhou Zheng, Jie Wang, Wei Tan, Kefeng Zhao, Jingkun Li, Chun |
| author_facet | Hong, Jihye Beers, Timothy C. Lee, Young Sun Huang, Yang Hirai, Yutaka Garcia, Jonathan Cabrera Shank, Derek Xu, Shuai Yuan, Haibo Mardini, Mohammad K. Catapano, Thomas Zhao, Gang Fan, Zhou Zheng, Jie Wang, Wei Tan, Kefeng Zhao, Jingkun Li, Chun |
| contents | Photometric stellar surveys now cover a large fraction of the sky, probe to fainter magnitudes than large-scale spectroscopic surveys, and are relatively free from the target-selection biases often associated with such studies. Photometric-metallicity estimates that include narrow/medium-band filters can achieve comparable accuracy and precision to existing low-resolution spectroscopic surveys such as SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST. Here we report on an effort to identify likely members of the Galactic disk system among the very metal-poor (VMP; [Fe/H] $\leq$ --2) and extremely metal-poor (EMP; [Fe/H] $\leq$ --3) stars. Our analysis is based on an initial sample of $\sim11.5$ million stars with full space motions selected from the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) and Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES). After applying a number of quality cuts to obtain the best available metallicity and dynamical estimates, we analyze a total of $\sim$5.86 million stars in the combined SMSS/SAGES sample. We employ two techniques that, depending on the method, identify between 876 and 1,476 VMP stars (6.9%-11.7% of all VMP stars) and between 40 and 59 EMP stars (12.4%-18.3% of all EMP stars) that appear to be members of the Galactic disk system on highly prograde orbits (v$_ϕ > 150$ km/s). The total number of candidate VMP/EMP disk-like stars is 1,496, the majority of which have low orbital eccentricities, ecc $\le 0.4$; many have ecc $\le 0.2$. The large fractions of VMP/EMP stars associated with the Milky Way disk system strongly suggest the presence of an early forming ``primordial" disk. |
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| spellingShingle | Candidate Members of the VMP/EMP Disk System of the Galaxy from the SkyMapper and SAGES Surveys Hong, Jihye Beers, Timothy C. Lee, Young Sun Huang, Yang Hirai, Yutaka Garcia, Jonathan Cabrera Shank, Derek Xu, Shuai Yuan, Haibo Mardini, Mohammad K. Catapano, Thomas Zhao, Gang Fan, Zhou Zheng, Jie Wang, Wei Tan, Kefeng Zhao, Jingkun Li, Chun Astrophysics of Galaxies Photometric stellar surveys now cover a large fraction of the sky, probe to fainter magnitudes than large-scale spectroscopic surveys, and are relatively free from the target-selection biases often associated with such studies. Photometric-metallicity estimates that include narrow/medium-band filters can achieve comparable accuracy and precision to existing low-resolution spectroscopic surveys such as SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST. Here we report on an effort to identify likely members of the Galactic disk system among the very metal-poor (VMP; [Fe/H] $\leq$ --2) and extremely metal-poor (EMP; [Fe/H] $\leq$ --3) stars. Our analysis is based on an initial sample of $\sim11.5$ million stars with full space motions selected from the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) and Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES). After applying a number of quality cuts to obtain the best available metallicity and dynamical estimates, we analyze a total of $\sim$5.86 million stars in the combined SMSS/SAGES sample. We employ two techniques that, depending on the method, identify between 876 and 1,476 VMP stars (6.9%-11.7% of all VMP stars) and between 40 and 59 EMP stars (12.4%-18.3% of all EMP stars) that appear to be members of the Galactic disk system on highly prograde orbits (v$_ϕ > 150$ km/s). The total number of candidate VMP/EMP disk-like stars is 1,496, the majority of which have low orbital eccentricities, ecc $\le 0.4$; many have ecc $\le 0.2$. The large fractions of VMP/EMP stars associated with the Milky Way disk system strongly suggest the presence of an early forming ``primordial" disk. |
| title | Candidate Members of the VMP/EMP Disk System of the Galaxy from the SkyMapper and SAGES Surveys |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02297 |