RAVE stars tidally stripped/ejected from $\omega$ Centauri globular cluster
Abstract
Using six-dimesional phase-space information from the Fourth Data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) over the range of Galactic longitude 240 360 and kms, we have computed orbits for 329 RAVE stars that were originally selected as chemically and kinematically related to Centauri. The orbits were integrated in a Milky-Way-like axisymmetric Galactic potential, ignoring the effects of the dynamical evolution of Centauri due to the tidal effects of the Galaxy disk on the cluster along time. We also ignored secular changes in the Milky Way potential over time. In a Monte Carlo scheme, and under the assumption that the stars may have been ejected with velocities greater than the escape velocity () from the cluster, we identified 15 stars as having close encounters with Centauri: (\textit{i}) 8 stars with relative velocities kms may have been ejected 200 Myr ago from Centauri; (\textit{ii}) other group of 7 stars were identified with high relative velocity kms during close encounters, and seems unlikely that they have been ejected from Centauri. We also confirm the link between J131340.4-484714 as potential member of Centauri, and probably ejected 2.0 Myr ago, with a relative velocity kms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.02839,
title = {RAVE stars tidally stripped/ejected from $\omega$ Centauri globular cluster},
author = {J. G. Fernández-Trincado and A. C. Robin and K. Vieira and E. Moreno and O. Bienaymé and C. Reylé and O. Valenzuela and B. Pichardo and F. Robles-Valdez and A. M. M. Martins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02839},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astron. and Astrophys