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Detecting the Sagittarius Stream with LAMOST DR4 M Giants and Gaia DR2

2019; IOP Publishing; Volume: 874; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3847/1538-4357/ab09ef

1538-4357

Jing Li, Chao Liu, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jing Zhong, Jake Weiss, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Hao Tian,

Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

We use LAMOST DR4 M giants combined with Gaia DR2 proper motions and ALLWISE photometry to obtain an extremely pure sample of Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars. Using TiO5 and CaH spectral indices as an indicator, we selected out a large sample of M giant stars from M dwarf stars in LAMOST DR4 spectra. Considering the position, distance, proper motion and the angular momentum distribution, we obtained 164 pure Sgr stream stars. We find that the trailing arm has higher energy than the leading arm in same angular momentum. The trailing arm we detected extends to a heliocentric distance of $\sim 130$ kpc at $\tilde\Lambda_{\odot}\sim 170^{\circ}$, which is consistent with the feature found in RR Lyrae in \citet{sgr2017}. Both of these detections of Sgr, in M giants and in RR Lyrae, imply that the Sgr stream may contain multiple stellar populations with a broad metallicity range.