A Very Metal-poor RR Lyrae Star with a Disk Orbit Found in the Solar Neighborhood

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العنوان: A Very Metal-poor RR Lyrae Star with a Disk Orbit Found in the Solar Neighborhood
المؤلفون: Matsunaga, Noriyuki, Itane, Akinori, Hattori, Kohei, Crestani, Juliana, Braga, Vittorio, Bono, Giuseppe, Taniguchi, Daisuke, Baba, Junichi, Maehara, Hiroyuki, Ukita, Nobuharu, Sakamoto, Tsuyoshi, Kobayashi, Naoto, Aoki, Tsutomu, Soyano, Takao, Tarusawa, Ken'ichi, Sarugaku, Yuki, Mito, Hiroyuki, Sako, Shigeyuki, Doi, Mamoru, Nakada, Yoshikazu, Izumi, Natsuko, Ita, Yoshifusa, Onozato, Hiroki, Jian, Mingjie, Kondo, Sohei, Hamano, Satoshi, Yasui, Chikako, Tsujimoto, Takuji, Otsubo, Shogo, Ikeda, Yuji, Kawakita, Hideyo
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف: Metal-deficient stars are important tracers for understanding the early formation of the Galaxy. Recent large-scale surveys with both photometric and spectroscopic data have reported an increasing number of metal-deficient stars whose kinematic features are consistent with those of the disk stellar populations. We report the discovery of an RR~Lyrae variable (hereafter RRL) that is located within the thick disk and has an orbit consistent with the thick-disk kinematics. Our target RRL (HD 331986) is located at around 1 kpc from the Sun and, with V=11.3, is among the 130 brightest RRLs known so far. However, this object was scarcely studied because it is in the midplane of the Galaxy, the Galactic latitude around -1 deg. Its near-infrared spectrum (0.91-1.32 micron) shows no absorption line except hydrogen lines of the Paschen series, suggesting [Fe/H] less than -2.5. It is the most metal-deficient RRL, at least, among the RRLs whose orbits are consistent with the disk kinematics, although we cannot determine to which of the disk and the halo it belongs. This unique RRL would provide us with essential clues for studying the early formation of stars in the inner Galaxy with further investigations, including high-resolution optical spectroscopy.
Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3483
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05402Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2201.05402
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv