From moving groups to star formation in the Solar Neighborhood

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Auteurs principaux: Swiggum, Cameren, Alves, João, D'Onghia, Elena
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author Swiggum, Cameren
Alves, João
D'Onghia, Elena
author_facet Swiggum, Cameren
Alves, João
D'Onghia, Elena
contents Moving groups in the solar neighborhood are ensembles of co-moving stars, likely originating due to forces from spiral arms, the Galactic bar, or external perturbations. Their co-movement with young clusters indicates recent star formation within these moving groups, but a lack of precise three-dimensional position and velocity measurements has obscured this connection. Using backward orbit integrations of 509 clusters within 1 kpc - based on Gaia DR3 and supplemented with APOGEE-2 and GALAH DR3 radial velocities - we trace their evolution over the past 100 Myr. We find that most clusters separate into three spatial groups that each trace one of the Pleiades, Coma Berenices, and Sirius moving groups. The same trend is not seen for the Hyades moving group. The young clusters of the Alpha Persei, Messier 6, and Collinder 135 families of clusters, previously found to have formed in three massive star-forming complexes, co-move with either the Pleiades (Alpha Persei and Messier 6) or Coma Berenices (Collinder 135). Our results provide a sharper view of how large-scale Galactic dynamics have shaped recent, nearby star formation.
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spellingShingle From moving groups to star formation in the Solar Neighborhood
Swiggum, Cameren
Alves, João
D'Onghia, Elena
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Moving groups in the solar neighborhood are ensembles of co-moving stars, likely originating due to forces from spiral arms, the Galactic bar, or external perturbations. Their co-movement with young clusters indicates recent star formation within these moving groups, but a lack of precise three-dimensional position and velocity measurements has obscured this connection. Using backward orbit integrations of 509 clusters within 1 kpc - based on Gaia DR3 and supplemented with APOGEE-2 and GALAH DR3 radial velocities - we trace their evolution over the past 100 Myr. We find that most clusters separate into three spatial groups that each trace one of the Pleiades, Coma Berenices, and Sirius moving groups. The same trend is not seen for the Hyades moving group. The young clusters of the Alpha Persei, Messier 6, and Collinder 135 families of clusters, previously found to have formed in three massive star-forming complexes, co-move with either the Pleiades (Alpha Persei and Messier 6) or Coma Berenices (Collinder 135). Our results provide a sharper view of how large-scale Galactic dynamics have shaped recent, nearby star formation.
title From moving groups to star formation in the Solar Neighborhood
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02825