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Nearly 30,000 late-type main-sequence stars with stellar age from LAMOST DR5

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-03-03 v1

Abstract

We construct a sample of nearly 30,000 main-sequence stars with 4500K <Teff<<T\rm_{eff}< 5000K and stellar ages estimated by the chromospheric activity-age relation. This sample is used to determine the age distribution in the RZR-Z plane of the Galaxy, where RR is the projected Galactocentric distance in the disk midplane and ZZ is the height above the disk midplane. As Z|Z| increases, the percentage of old stars becomes larger. It is known that scale-height of Galactic disk increases as RR increases, which is called flare. A mild flare from RR \sim 8.0 to 9.0 kpc in stellar age distribution is found. We also find that the velocity dispersion increases with age as confirmed by previous studies. Finally we present spiral-shaped structures in ZυZZ-\upsilon_{Z} phase space in three stellar age bins. The spiral is clearly seen in the age bin of [0, 1] Gyr, which suggests that a vertical perturbation to the disk probably took place within the last \sim 1.0 Gyr.

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@article{arxiv.2011.12477,
  title  = {Nearly 30,000 late-type main-sequence stars with stellar age from LAMOST DR5},
  author = {Jiajun Zhang and Jingkun Zhao and Terry D. Oswalt and Xilong Liang and Xianhao Ye and Gang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12477},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures, accepted by ApJ