S <sup>5</sup>: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams
Authors
De Silva, GM
Publication Date
2022-03-01Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
ISSN
0004-637X
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Volume
928
Issue
1
Language
en
Type
Article
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Li, T., Ji, A., Pace, A., Erkal, D., Koposov, S., Shipp, N., Da Costa, G., et al. (2022). S <sup>5</sup>: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams. Astrophysical Journal, 928 (1) https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac46d3
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>We report the kinematic, orbital, and chemical properties of 12 stellar streams with no evident progenitors using line-of-sight velocities and metallicities from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (<jats:italic>S</jats:italic>
<jats:sup>5</jats:sup>), proper motions from Gaia EDR3, and distances derived from distance tracers or the literature. This data set provides the largest homogeneously analyzed set of streams with full 6D kinematics and metallicities. All streams have heliocentric distances between ∼10 and 50 kpc. The velocity and metallicity dispersions show that half of the stream progenitors were disrupted dwarf galaxies (DGs), while the other half originated from disrupted globular clusters (GCs), hereafter referred to as DG and GC streams. Based on the mean metallicities of the streams and the mass–metallicity relation, the luminosities of the progenitors of the DG streams range between those of Carina and Ursa Major I (−9.5 ≲ <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
<jats:sub>
<jats:italic>V</jats:italic>
</jats:sub> ≲ −5.5). Four of the six GC streams have mean metallicities of [Fe/H] < −2, more metal poor than typical Milky Way (MW) GCs at similar distances. Interestingly, the 300S and Jet GC streams are the only streams on retrograde orbits in our dozen-stream sample. Finally, we compare the orbital properties of the streams with known DGs and GCs in the MW, finding several possible associations. Some streams appear to have been accreted with the recently discovered Gaia–Enceladus–Sausage system, and others suggest that GCs were formed in and accreted together with the progenitors of DG streams whose stellar masses are similar to those of Draco to Carina (∼10<jats:sup>5</jats:sup>–10<jats:sup>6</jats:sup>
<jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
<jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub>).</jats:p>
Keywords
320, Interstellar Matter and the Local Universe
Sponsorship
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (HST-HF2-51439.001)
NSF (AST-1813881)
Australian Research Council (DP180101791)
Australian Research Council (CE170100013)
Identifiers
apjac46d3, ac46d3, aas35377
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac46d3
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335394
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