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Moving clusters among galactic halo stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

A. Poveda
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Apdo. 70-264, 04510 México, D. F.
C. Allen
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Apdo. 70-264, 04510 México, D. F. Dirección General de Servicios de Cómputo Académico, UNAM, 04510 México, D. F.
W. Schuster
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Apdo. 70-264, 04510 México, D. F. Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Apdo. 51 y 216, 72000 Puebla, Pue., México

Abstract

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It has been suggested that most of the primeval galactic globular clusters have been dissociated by encounters with molecular clouds, and by tidal effects in the vicinity of the galactic center; their stellar remnants would move preserving some memory of their original kinematical parameters and might resemble the well-known population I moving clusters. However it has been shown, by direct numerical integration, that a significant fraction of the halo stars have chaotic orbits and many others reach high z-values; hence the usual criterium of identifying group members by the similarity of their V-velocities breaks down. Instead, we use the constancy of the integrals of motion, i.e. the total energy and the z- component of the angular momentum, as well as the metallicity [Fe/H], as the identifying parameters for group membership of a given star. From the analysis of the metallicities and the integrals of motion of 206 halo stars, we have been able to identify several halo moving groups.

Type
Poster Papers
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Copyright © Kluwer 

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