On the identification of merger debris in the {\it Gaia} Era

Amina Helmi; Anthony G. A. Brown; Facundo A. G\'omez; Yang-Shyang Li

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On the identification of merger debris in the {\it Gaia} Era

Facundo A. Gómez, Amina Helmi, Anthony G. A. Brown, Yang-Shyang Li

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Submitted 28 Apr 2010

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The authors' main claim We find that, even after accounting for the expected observational errors, the resulting phase-space is full of substructure.

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CitationAmina Helmi, Anthony G. A. Brown, Facundo A. G\'omez, Yang-Shyang Li. "On the identification of merger debris in the {\it Gaia} Era." arXiv:1004.4974 (2010). https://pith.science/paper/6APT26GT

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We model the formation of the Galactic stellar halo via the accretion of satellite galaxies onto a time-dependent semi-cosmological galactic potential. Our goal is to characterize the substructure left by these accretion events in a close manner to what may be possible with the {\it Gaia} mission. We have created a synthetic {\it Gaia} Solar Neighbourhood catalogue by convolving the 6D phase-space coordinates of stellar particles from our disrupted satellites with the latest estimates of the {\it Gaia} measurement errors, and included realistic background contamination due to the Galactic disc(s) and bulge. We find that, even after accounting for the expected observational errors, the resulting phase-space is full of substructure. We are able to successfully isolate roughly 50% of the different satellites contributing to the `Solar Neighbourhood' by applying the Mean-Shift clustering algorithm in energy-angular momentum space. Furthermore, a Fourier analysis of the space of orbital frequencies allows us to obtain accurate estimates of time since accretion for approximately 30% of the recovered satellites.

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We model the formation of the Galactic stellar halo via the accretion of satellite galaxies onto a time-dependent semi-cosmological galactic potential. Our goal is to characterize the substructure left by these accretion events in a close manner to what may be possible with the {\it Gaia} mission. We have created a synthetic {\it Gaia} Solar Neighbourhood catalogue by convolving the 6D phase-space coordinates of stellar particles from our disrupted satellites with the latest estimates of the {\it Gaia} measurement errors, and included realistic background contamination due to the Galactic disc(s) and bulge. We find that, even after accounting for the expected observational errors, the resulting phase-space is full of substructure. We are able to successfully isolate roughly 50% of the different satellites contributing to the `Solar Neighbourhood' by applying the Mean-Shift clustering algorithm in energy-angular momentum space. Furthermore, a Fourier analysis of the space of orbital frequencies allows us to obtain accurate estimates of time since accretion for approximately 30% of the recovered satellites.

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This MDF is modelled as a single gaussian distribution with a mean metallicity $⟨[Fe/H]⟩= -0.28$ dex and a dispersion $σ= 0.4$ dex, as found in the outermost field analysed by [ref] (located at a latitude of $b = -12^∘$).

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