TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamical Origin for the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 Stream
T2 - A Mixture of Three Comoving Populations with an Age Difference of 250 Myr
AU - Pang, Xiaoying
AU - Li, Yuqian
AU - Tang, Shih Yun
AU - Wang, Long
AU - Wang, Yanshu
AU - Li, Zhao Yu
AU - Wang, Danchen
AU - Kouwenhoven, M. B.N.
AU - Pasquato, Mario
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous referee for their constructive comments and suggestions that helped to improve this paper. This work is supported by the grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 12173029. X.P. acknowledges the financial support of the research development fund of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (RDF-18–02–32). L.W. thanks the support from the one-hundred-talent project of Sun Yat-sen University, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Sun Yat-sen University (22hytd09), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China through grant 12073090. X.P. and L.W. acknowledge the research support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through grants 12233013. M.B.N.K. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 11573004) and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (grant RDF-SP-93). Z.Y.L. is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 12122301, by a Shanghai Natural Science Research grant (21ZR1430600), by the Cultivation Project for LAMOST Scientific Payoff and Research Achievement of CAMS-CAS, and by the “111” project of the Ministry of Education under grant No. B20019.
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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - We use Gaia DR3 data to study the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 region via the machine-learning algorithm StarGO and find eight subgroups of stars (ASCC 32, Collinder 132 gp 1-6, Gulliver 21) located in close proximity. Three comoving populations were identified among these eight subgroups: (i) a coeval 25 Myr old moving group (Collinder 132), (ii) an intermediate-age (50-100 Myr) group, and (iii) the 275 Myr old dissolving cluster Gulliver 21. These three populations form parallel diagonal stripe-shape overdensities in the U-V distribution, which differ from open clusters and stellar groups in the solar neighborhood. We name this kinematic structure the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 stream, as it extends over 270 pc in the 3D space. The oldest population, Gulliver 21, is spatially surrounded by the Collinder 132 moving group and the intermediate-age group. Stars in the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 stream have an age difference up to 250 Myr. Metallicity information shows a variation of 0.3 dex between the youngest and oldest populations. The formation of the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 stream involves both star formation and dynamical heating. The youngest population (Collinder 132 moving group) with homogeneous metallicity is probably formed through filamentary star formation. The intermediate-age and oldest populations were then scattered by the Galactic bar or spiral structure resonance to intercept Collinder 132's orbit. Without mutual interaction between each population, the three populations are flying by each other currently and will become three distinct groups again in ∼50 Myr.
AB - We use Gaia DR3 data to study the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 region via the machine-learning algorithm StarGO and find eight subgroups of stars (ASCC 32, Collinder 132 gp 1-6, Gulliver 21) located in close proximity. Three comoving populations were identified among these eight subgroups: (i) a coeval 25 Myr old moving group (Collinder 132), (ii) an intermediate-age (50-100 Myr) group, and (iii) the 275 Myr old dissolving cluster Gulliver 21. These three populations form parallel diagonal stripe-shape overdensities in the U-V distribution, which differ from open clusters and stellar groups in the solar neighborhood. We name this kinematic structure the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 stream, as it extends over 270 pc in the 3D space. The oldest population, Gulliver 21, is spatially surrounded by the Collinder 132 moving group and the intermediate-age group. Stars in the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 stream have an age difference up to 250 Myr. Metallicity information shows a variation of 0.3 dex between the youngest and oldest populations. The formation of the Collinder 132-Gulliver 21 stream involves both star formation and dynamical heating. The youngest population (Collinder 132 moving group) with homogeneous metallicity is probably formed through filamentary star formation. The intermediate-age and oldest populations were then scattered by the Galactic bar or spiral structure resonance to intercept Collinder 132's orbit. Without mutual interaction between each population, the three populations are flying by each other currently and will become three distinct groups again in ∼50 Myr.
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U2 - 10.3847/2041-8213/ac8e68
DO - 10.3847/2041-8213/ac8e68
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139164647
SN - 2041-8205
VL - 937
JO - Astrophysical Journal Letters
JF - Astrophysical Journal Letters
IS - 1
M1 - L7
ER -