The Structure, Populations and Kinematics of the Milky Way central and inner Bulge with OGLE, APOGEE and Gaia data

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Autores principales: Han, Xiao, Wang, Hai-Feng, Carraro, Giovanni, López-Corredoira, Martín, Ting, Yuan-Sen, Luo, Yang-Ping, Wang, Guan-Yu
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author Han, Xiao
Wang, Hai-Feng
Carraro, Giovanni
López-Corredoira, Martín
Ting, Yuan-Sen
Luo, Yang-Ping
Wang, Guan-Yu
author_facet Han, Xiao
Wang, Hai-Feng
Carraro, Giovanni
López-Corredoira, Martín
Ting, Yuan-Sen
Luo, Yang-Ping
Wang, Guan-Yu
contents We present an analysis of the structure, kinematics, and chemo-dynamical properties of the Milky Way bulge using RR Lyrae stars from OGLE, and giant stars from APOGEE and Gaia that have distances placing them in the inner Galaxy. Firstly, using a sample of 1,879 ab-type RR Lyrae stars (RRabs) from OGLE-IV, we identified three populations: central bulge RRabs, the inner bulge RRabs, and halo or disk interlopers, based on their apocenters derived from orbital integration. Inner bulge RRabs kinematically align with the Galactic bar, while central bulge RRabs show slower rotation with lower velocity dispersion. Higher velocity dispersion stars were identified as halo/disk interlopers. Then, orbital analysis of 28,188 APOGEE Red Clump and Red Giant Branch stars revealed kinematic properties consistent with RRabs, and the chemical abundance distribution displayed a bimodal stellar density pattern, suggesting complex star evolution histories and slightly different star formation histories for the inner bulge and central bulge. The differences in the density distribution on the $|\mathrm{Z}|_{\text{max}}$-eccentricity plane for the central bulge, inner bulge, and interlopers are clearly detected. It is found that the classification of bulge stars based on orbital parameters, rather than solely on metallicity, provides a more accurate population separation. As the inner bulge, which contains the highest fraction of stars, traces the bar formed by the instability of the Galactic disk, our results support that pseudo-bulge is the primary origin of the bulge. Furthermore, fitting the observed data to both the boxy and X-shaped bulge models indicated a preference for the boxy bulge.
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spellingShingle The Structure, Populations and Kinematics of the Milky Way central and inner Bulge with OGLE, APOGEE and Gaia data
Han, Xiao
Wang, Hai-Feng
Carraro, Giovanni
López-Corredoira, Martín
Ting, Yuan-Sen
Luo, Yang-Ping
Wang, Guan-Yu
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We present an analysis of the structure, kinematics, and chemo-dynamical properties of the Milky Way bulge using RR Lyrae stars from OGLE, and giant stars from APOGEE and Gaia that have distances placing them in the inner Galaxy. Firstly, using a sample of 1,879 ab-type RR Lyrae stars (RRabs) from OGLE-IV, we identified three populations: central bulge RRabs, the inner bulge RRabs, and halo or disk interlopers, based on their apocenters derived from orbital integration. Inner bulge RRabs kinematically align with the Galactic bar, while central bulge RRabs show slower rotation with lower velocity dispersion. Higher velocity dispersion stars were identified as halo/disk interlopers. Then, orbital analysis of 28,188 APOGEE Red Clump and Red Giant Branch stars revealed kinematic properties consistent with RRabs, and the chemical abundance distribution displayed a bimodal stellar density pattern, suggesting complex star evolution histories and slightly different star formation histories for the inner bulge and central bulge. The differences in the density distribution on the $|\mathrm{Z}|_{\text{max}}$-eccentricity plane for the central bulge, inner bulge, and interlopers are clearly detected. It is found that the classification of bulge stars based on orbital parameters, rather than solely on metallicity, provides a more accurate population separation. As the inner bulge, which contains the highest fraction of stars, traces the bar formed by the instability of the Galactic disk, our results support that pseudo-bulge is the primary origin of the bulge. Furthermore, fitting the observed data to both the boxy and X-shaped bulge models indicated a preference for the boxy bulge.
title The Structure, Populations and Kinematics of the Milky Way central and inner Bulge with OGLE, APOGEE and Gaia data
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00752