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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 746, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/181
关键词
Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; solar neighborhood
资金
- Peking University
- NSFC [11043005, 11010022]
- European Science Foundation (ESF)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- STFC [ST/J001538/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J001538/1, ST/H00243X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We use the Stripe 82 proper-motion catalog of Bramich et al. to study the kinematics of Galactic disk stars in the solar neighborhood. We select samples of dwarf stars with reliable spectra and proper motions. They have cylindrical polar radii between 7 <= R <= 9 kpc, heights from the Galactic plane satisfying |z| <= 2 kpc, and span a range of metallicities -1.5 <= [Fe/H] <= 0. We develop a method for calculating and correcting for the halo contamination in our sample using the distribution of rotational velocities. Two Gaussians representing disk and halo populations are used to fit the radial (v(R)) and vertical (v(z)) velocity distributions via maximum likelihood methods. For the azimuthal velocities (v(phi)) the same technique is used, except that a skewed non-Gaussian functional form now represents the disk velocity distribution. This enables us to compute the dispersions sigma(R), sigma(z), sigma(phi), and cross-terms (the tilt sigma(Rz) and the vertex deviation sigma(R phi)) of the velocity ellipsoid as a function of height and metallicity. We also investigate the rotation lag of the disk, finding that the more metal-poor stars rotate significantly slower than the metal-rich stars. These samples provide important constraints on heating mechanisms in the Galactic disk and can be used for a variety of applications. We present one such application employing the Jeans equations to provide a simple model of the potential close to the disk. Our model is in excellent agreement with others in the literature and provides an indication that the disk, rather than the halo, dominates the circular speed at the solar neighborhood. We obtain a surface mass density within 1.1 kpc of around 66 M-circle dot pc(-2) and estimate a local halo density of 0.015 M-circle dot pc(-3) = 0.57 GeV cm(-3).
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