The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream
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| author | Venn, Kim A. Yuan, Zhen Martin, Nicolas F. Dovgal, Anya Zaremba, Daria Starkenburg, Else Gran, Felipe Hayes, Christian R. Hill, Vanessa Kobayashi, Chiaki Lardo, Carmela McConnachie, Alan W. Matsuno, Tadafumi Montelius, Martin Placco, Vinicius Sestito, Federico Ardern-Arentsen, Anke Battaglia, Guiseppina Bonifacio, Piercarlo Carlberg, Raymond Fabbro, Sebastien Fouesneau, Morgan Ibata, Rodrigo Jablonka, Pascale Jensen, Jaclyn Kordopatis, Georges McKenzie, Madelyn Navarro, Julio F. Pazder, John S. Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben Smith, Simon T. E. Viswanathan, Akshara Vitali, Sara Wang, Long Wang, Zhen |
| author_facet | Venn, Kim A. Yuan, Zhen Martin, Nicolas F. Dovgal, Anya Zaremba, Daria Starkenburg, Else Gran, Felipe Hayes, Christian R. Hill, Vanessa Kobayashi, Chiaki Lardo, Carmela McConnachie, Alan W. Matsuno, Tadafumi Montelius, Martin Placco, Vinicius Sestito, Federico Ardern-Arentsen, Anke Battaglia, Guiseppina Bonifacio, Piercarlo Carlberg, Raymond Fabbro, Sebastien Fouesneau, Morgan Ibata, Rodrigo Jablonka, Pascale Jensen, Jaclyn Kordopatis, Georges McKenzie, Madelyn Navarro, Julio F. Pazder, John S. Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben Smith, Simon T. E. Viswanathan, Akshara Vitali, Sara Wang, Long Wang, Zhen |
| contents | Stellar streams, remnants of compact star systems stretched out by the tidal forces of the Milky Way, offer a unique way to study stellar populations that formed billions of years ago. A particularly unique stream is C-19, the most metal-poor stellar stream known at less than a thousandth of the Sun's metallicity. The nature of C-19 is not yet clear, with properties that resemble both star clusters and ultra faint dwarf galaxies, yet in either case its extremely low metallicity indicates very early star formation, <1 Gyr after the Big Bang. Here, we present the first detailed study on the nature of C-19 based on the chemical abundances of 14 member stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. These reveal that C-19 formed stars in an early, rapid, and prolific star formation event, with mild inhomogeneous mixing of elements produced in massive stars. There is otherwise no evidence for subsequent star formation, multiple stellar populations, nor chemical evolution. Although C-19 is currently disrupted in the Milky Way halo, it offers a rare and complementary window into the details of star formation and chemical evolution in the early universe, ideal for comparisons with current studies of primordial star formation in the high-redshift universe. |
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| spellingShingle | The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream Venn, Kim A. Yuan, Zhen Martin, Nicolas F. Dovgal, Anya Zaremba, Daria Starkenburg, Else Gran, Felipe Hayes, Christian R. Hill, Vanessa Kobayashi, Chiaki Lardo, Carmela McConnachie, Alan W. Matsuno, Tadafumi Montelius, Martin Placco, Vinicius Sestito, Federico Ardern-Arentsen, Anke Battaglia, Guiseppina Bonifacio, Piercarlo Carlberg, Raymond Fabbro, Sebastien Fouesneau, Morgan Ibata, Rodrigo Jablonka, Pascale Jensen, Jaclyn Kordopatis, Georges McKenzie, Madelyn Navarro, Julio F. Pazder, John S. Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben Smith, Simon T. E. Viswanathan, Akshara Vitali, Sara Wang, Long Wang, Zhen Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Stellar streams, remnants of compact star systems stretched out by the tidal forces of the Milky Way, offer a unique way to study stellar populations that formed billions of years ago. A particularly unique stream is C-19, the most metal-poor stellar stream known at less than a thousandth of the Sun's metallicity. The nature of C-19 is not yet clear, with properties that resemble both star clusters and ultra faint dwarf galaxies, yet in either case its extremely low metallicity indicates very early star formation, <1 Gyr after the Big Bang. Here, we present the first detailed study on the nature of C-19 based on the chemical abundances of 14 member stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. These reveal that C-19 formed stars in an early, rapid, and prolific star formation event, with mild inhomogeneous mixing of elements produced in massive stars. There is otherwise no evidence for subsequent star formation, multiple stellar populations, nor chemical evolution. Although C-19 is currently disrupted in the Milky Way halo, it offers a rare and complementary window into the details of star formation and chemical evolution in the early universe, ideal for comparisons with current studies of primordial star formation in the high-redshift universe. |
| title | The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02445 |