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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 478, 期 1, 页码 611-619出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty982
关键词
galaxies: dwarf; Local Group; galaxies: structure
资金
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC [308024]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- STFC [ST/P000451/1]
Using a large sample of main sequence stars with 7D measurements supplied by Gaia and SUSS, we study the kinematic properties of the local (within similar to 10 kpc from the Sun) stellar halo. We demonstrate that the halo's velocity ellipsoid evolves strongly with metallicity. At the low[Fe/H] end, the orbital anisotropy (the amount of motion in the radial direction compared with the tangential one) is mildly radial, with 0.2 < beta < 0.4. For stars with [Fe/H] -1.7, however, we measure extreme values of beta similar to 0.9. Across the metallicity range considered, namely -3 < [Fe/H] < -1, the stellar halo's spin is minimal, at the level of 20 < <(nu)over bar>(theta)(kms(-1)) < 30. Using a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations of halo formation, we deduce that the observed acute anisotropy is inconsistent with the continuous accretion of dwarf satellites. Instead, we argue, the stellar debris in the inner halo was deposited in a major accretion event by a satellite with M-vir > 10(10)M(circle dot) around the epoch of the Galactic disc formation, between 8 and 11 Gyr ago. The radical halo anisotropy is the result of the dramatic radialization of the massive progenitor's orbit, amplified by the action of the growing disc.
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