Malmö University Publications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
The chemical characterization of halo substructure in the Milky Way based on APOGEE
Astrophys Res Inst, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L35RF, England.;Univ Queensland, Sch Math & Phys, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia..
Astrophys Res Inst, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L35RF, England..
Univ Toronto, Canadian Inst Theoret Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada.;Univ Toronto, Dunlap Inst Astron & Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S3H4, Canada..
Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA..
Show others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, E-ISSN 1365-2966, Vol. 520, no 4, p. 5671-5711Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Galactic haloes in a ?-CDM universe are predicted to host today a swarm of debris resulting from cannibalized dwarf galaxies. The chemodynamical information recorded in their stellar populations helps elucidate their nature, constraining the assembly history of the Galaxy. Using data from APOGEE and Gaia, we examine the chemical properties of various halo substructures, considering elements that sample various nucleosynthetic pathways. The systems studied are Heracles, Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage (GES), the Helmi stream, Sequoia, Thamnos, Aleph, LMS-1, Arjuna, I'itoi, Nyx, Icarus, and Pontus. Abundance patterns of all substructures are cross-compared in a statistically robust fashion. Our main findings include: (i) the chemical properties of most substructures studied match qualitatively those of dwarf Milky Way satellites, such as the Sagittarius dSph. Exceptions are Nyx and Aleph, which are chemically similar to disc stars, implying that these substructures were likely formed in situ; (ii) Heracles differs chemically from in situ populations such as Aurora and its inner halo counterparts in a statistically significant way. The differences suggest that the star formation rate was lower in Heracles than in the early Milky Way; (iii) the chemistry of Arjuna, LMS-1, and I'itoi is indistinguishable from that of GES, suggesting a possible common origin; (iv) all three Sequoia samples studied are qualitatively similar. However, only two of those samples present chemistry that is consistent with GES in a statistically significant fashion; (v) the abundance patterns of the Helmi stream and Thamnos are different from all other halo substructures.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2023. Vol. 520, no 4, p. 5671-5711
Keywords [en]
Galaxy: abundances, Galaxy: evolution, Galaxy: formation, Galaxy: general, Galaxy: halo, Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-59289DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3179ISI: 000943248300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85159283515OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-59289DiVA, id: diva2:1751837
Available from: 2023-04-19 Created: 2023-04-19 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Jönsson, Henrik

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Jönsson, Henrik
By organisation
Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics (MTM)
In the same journal
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 45 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf