Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
8-5-2017
Abstract/Description
We have cross-matched the LAMOST DR3 with the Gaia DR1 TGAS cata- logs and obtained a sample of 166,827 stars with reliable kinematics. A technique based on the wavelet transform was applied to detect significant overdensities in velocity space among five subsamples divided by spatial position. In total, 16 sig- nificant overdensities of stars with very similar kinematics were identified. Among these, four are new stream candidates and the rest are previously known groups. Both the U-V velocity and metallicity distributions of the local sample show a clear gap between the Hercules structure and the Hyades-Pleiades structure. The U-V positions of these peaks shift with the spatial position. Following a descrip- tion of our analysis, we speculate on possible origins of our stream candidates.
Publication Title
The Astrophysical journal
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7cf7
Publisher
The Institute of Physics
Scholarly Commons Citation
Liang, X. L., Oswalt, T., Zhao, J. K., Chen, Y. Q., & Zhao, G. (2017). Stellar Stream Candidates in the Solar Neighborhood Found in the LAMOST DR3 and TGAS. The Astrophysical journal, 844(2). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7cf7