Three Moving Groups Detected in the LAMOST DR1 Archive
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 (, , ) based on color and proper motion from the SDSS DR9 catalog. Three `phase-space overdensities' are identified in [\textit{V}, ] with significance levels of 3. %[L, eccentricity], [L, L], and [V, V]. 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} -180 km s) 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures