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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 755, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/755/2/L25
关键词
Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure; surveys
资金
- SDSS-III/APOGEE
- NSF [AST-0807945]
- NASA Earth & Space Science Fellowship
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-2010-BLAN-0508-01OTP]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Participating Institutions
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1109718] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Commissioning observations with the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, have produced radial velocities (RVs) for similar to 4700 K/M-giant stars in the Milky Way (MW) bulge. These high-resolution (R similar to 22,500), high-S/N (>100 per resolution element), near-infrared (NIR; 1.51-1.70 mu m) spectra provide accurate RVs (epsilon(V) similar to 0.2 km s(-1)) for the sample of stars in 18 Galactic bulge fields spanning -1 degrees < l < 20 degrees, vertical bar b vertical bar < 20 degrees, and delta > -32 degrees. This represents the largest NIR high-resolution spectroscopic sample of giant stars ever assembled in this region of the Galaxy. A cold (sigma(V) similar to 30 km s(-1)), high-velocity peak (V-GSR approximate to + 200 km s(-1)) is found to comprise a significant fraction (similar to 10%) of stars in many of these fields. These high RVs have not been detected in previous MW surveys and are not expected for a simple, circularly rotating disk. Preliminary distance estimates rule out an origin from the background Sagittarius tidal stream or a new stream in the MW disk. Comparison to various Galactic models suggests that these high RVs are best explained by stars in orbits of the Galactic bar potential, although some observational features remain unexplained.
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