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Three Moving Groups Detected in the LAMOST DR1 Archive

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-19 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We analyze the kinematics of thick disk and halo stars observed by the Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope. We have constructed a sample of 7,993 F, G and K nearby main-sequence stars (\textit{d} << 2 kpc) with estimates of position (x, y, z) and space velocity (UU, VV, WW) based on color and proper motion from the SDSS DR9 catalog. Three `phase-space overdensities' are identified in [\textit{V}, U2+2V2\sqrt{U^{2}+2V^{2}}] with significance levels of σ\sigma >> 3. %[LZ_{Z}, eccentricity], [LZ_{Z}, L_{\bot}], and [Vaz_{az}, VE_{\triangle}E]. Two of them (Hyades-Pleiades stream, Arcturus-AF06 stream) have been identified previously. We also find evidence for a new stream (centered at \textit{V} \sim -180 km s1^{-1}) in the halo. The formation mechanisms of these three streams are analyzed. Our results support the hypothesis the Arcturus-AF06 stream and the new stream originated from the debris of a disrupted satellite, while Hyades-Pleiades stream has a dynamical origin.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0639,
  title  = {Three Moving Groups Detected in the LAMOST DR1 Archive},
  author = {Jingkun Zhao and Gang Zhao and Yuqin Chen and Terry D. Oswalt and Kefeng Tan and Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0639},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures

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