Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey PIGS VIII Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ardern-Arentsen A.
  2. Monari G.
  3. Queiroz A.B.A.
  4. Starkenburg E.
  5. Martin N.F.,Chiappini C.
  6. Aguado D.S.
  7. Belokurov V.
  8. Carlberg R.
  9. Monty S.
  10. Myeong G.,Schultheis M.
  11. Sestito F.
  12. Venn K.A.
  13. Vitali S.
  14. Yuan Z.
  15. Zhang H.,Buder S.
  16. Lewis G.F.
  17. Oliver W.H.
  18. Wan Z.
  19. Zucker D.B.
  20. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The oldest stars in the Milky Way (born in the first few billion years) are expected to have a high density in the inner few kpc, spatially overlapping with the Galactic bulge. We use spectroscopic data from the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) to study the dynamical properties of ancient, metal-poor inner Galaxy stars. We compute distances using StarHorse, and orbital properties in a barred Galactic potential. With this paper, we release the spectroscopic AAT/PIGS catalogue (13235 stars). We find that most PIGS stars have orbits typical for a pressure-supported population. The fraction of stars confined to the inner Galaxy decreases with decreasing metallicity, but many very metal-poor stars (VMP, [Fe/H]<-2.0) stay confined (~ 60% stay within 5 kpc). The azimuthal velocity v_phi_ also decreases between [Fe/H]=-1.0 and -2.0, but is constant for VMP stars (at ~40km/s). The carbon-enhanced metal- poor (CEMP) stars in PIGS appear to have similar orbital properties compared to normal VMP stars. Our results suggest a possible transition between two spheroidal components - a more metal-rich, more concentrated, faster rotating component, and a more metal-poor, more extended and slower/non-rotating component. We propose that the former may be connected to pre-disc in-situ stars (or those born in large building blocks), whereas the latter may be dominated by contributions from smaller galaxies. This is an exciting era where large metal-poor samples, such as in this work (as well as upcoming surveys, e.g., 4MOST), shed light on the earliest evolution of our Galaxy.

Keywords
  1. milky-way-galaxy
  2. chemically-peculiar-stars
  3. metallicity
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. effective-temperature
  6. stellar-distance
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2024MNRAS.530.3391A
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History

2024-05-10T09:05:49Z
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2024-05-10T09:05:49Z
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