Based on the second Gaia data release (Gaia DR2) and spectroscopy from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Data, we identified 20,089 halo stars kinematically and chemically. The halo streams in the solar neighborhood could be detected in the space of energy and angular momentum. We reshuffle the velocities of these stars to determine the significance of substructure. Finally, we identify 4 statistically significant substructures that are labeled GL-1 through 4. Among these substructures, GL-1 is previously known stream ("N2" stream) and the rest 3 substructures are new. These substructures may be the debris of dwarf galaxies accretion event, their dynamical and chemical information can help to understand the history of the Milky Way.
@article{arxiv.1902.04702,
title = {The substructures in the local stellar halo from Gaia and LAMOST},
author = {Hefan Li and Cuihua Du and Shuai Liu and Thomas Donlon and Heidi Jo Newberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04702},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ