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Two Portions of Sagittarius Stream in the LAMOST Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Pointing Area at Southern Galactic Cap
The Astrophysical Journal
  • J. K. Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Terry D. Oswalt, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • X. H. Ye, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • H. Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • M. Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • X. X. Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Y. Q. Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • J. J. Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • G. Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
9-24-2020
Abstract/Description

We constructed a sample of 13,798 stars with Teff , log g, [Fe/H], radial velocity, proper motions and parallaxes from LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR2 in the LAMOST Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Pointing Area (LaCoSSPAr) at the Southern Galactic Cap consisting of areas A and B. Using the distributions in both proper motions and radial velocity, we detected very significant overdensi- ties in these two areas. These substructures most likely are portions of Sagittarius (Sgr) stream. With the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm, 220 candidates stream members were identified. Based upon distance to the Sun and published models, 106 of these stars are likely to be the members of the Sgr stream. The abundance pattern of these members using [α/Fe] from Xiang et al. were found to be similar to Galactic field stars with [Fe/H] < -1.5 and deficient to Milky Way populations at similar metallicities with [Fe/H] > -1.0. No vertical and only small radial gradients in metallicity along the orbit of Sgr stream were found in our Sgr stream candidates.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abbc1f
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society & IOP Science
Grant or Award Name
National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.11988101,11973048,11927804,11890694,11625313,11733006
Citation Information
J. K. Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt, X. H. Ye, H. Wu, et al.. "Two Portions of Sagittarius Stream in the LAMOST Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Pointing Area at Southern Galactic Cap" The Astrophysical Journal Vol. 904 Iss. 1 (2020) p. 1 - 17
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