Stars made in outflows may populate the stellar halo of the Milky Way
Stars made in outflows may populate the stellar halo of the Milky Way
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外流产生的恒星可能会填充银河系的恒星晕
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/staa522
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Kereš, Dušan
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作者:
Yu, Sijie;Bullock, James S;Wetzel, Andrew;Sanderson, Robyn E;Graus, Andrew S;Boylan-Kolchin, Michael;Nierenberg, Anna M;Grudić, Michael Y;Hopkins, Philip F;Kereš, Dušan
We study stellar-halo formation using six Milky-Way-mass galaxies in FIRE-2 cosmological zoom simulations. We find thatof the outer (50–300 kpc) stellar halo in each system consists ofin-situstars that were born in outflows from the main galaxy. Outflow stars originate from gas accelerated by superbubble winds, which can be compressed, cool, and form co-moving stars. The majority of these stars remain bound to the halo and fall back with orbital properties similar to the rest of the stellar halo atz= 0. In the outer halo, outflow stars are more spatially homogeneous, metal-rich, and alpha-element-enhanced than the accreted stellar halo. At the solar location, up toof our kinematically identified halo stars were born in outflows; the fraction rises to as high asfor the most metal-rich local halo stars ([Fe/H] >−0.5). Such stars can be retrograde and create features similar to the recently discovered Milky Way ‘Splash’ in phase space. We conclude that the Milky Way stellar halo could contain local counterparts to stars that are observed to form in molecular outflows in distant galaxies. Searches for such a population may provide a new, near-field approach to constraining feedback and outflow physics. A stellar halo contribution from outflows is a phase-reversal of the classic halo formation scenario of Eggen, Lynden-Bell & Sandange, who suggested that halo stars formed in rapidlyinfallinggas clouds. Stellar outflows may be observable in direct imaging of external galaxies and could provide a source for metal-rich, extreme-velocity stars in the Milky Way.
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DOI:
10.3847/2041-8213/ab0ec0
发表时间:
2019-03
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
影响因子:
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作者:
T. Matsuno;W. Aoki;T. Suda
通讯作者:
T. Matsuno;W. Aoki;T. Suda
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
A. H. Zonoozi;Hamidreza Mahani;P. Kroupa
通讯作者:
P. Kroupa
DOI:
10.3847/1538-4357/aacce1
发表时间:
2018-03
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
--
作者:
E. Schneider;B. Robertson;T. Thompson
通讯作者:
E. Schneider;B. Robertson;T. Thompson
DOI:
10.3847/0004-637x/822/1/31
发表时间:
2016
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
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作者:
M. Brüggen;E. Scannapieco
通讯作者:
E. Scannapieco
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
K. El-Badry;J. Bland-Hawthorn;A. Wetzel;E. Quataert;D. Weisz;M. Boylan-Kolchin;P. Hopkins;C. Faucher-Giguère;D. Keres̆;S. Garrison-Kimmel
通讯作者:
K. El-Badry;J. Bland-Hawthorn;A. Wetzel;E. Quataert;D. Weisz;M. Boylan-Kolchin;P. Hopkins;C. Faucher-Giguère;D. Keres̆;S. Garrison-Kimmel