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Dos componentes estelares en el halo de la Vía Láctea
Daniela Carollo1, Timothy C Beers, Young Sun Lee
1INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy. carollo@mso.anu.edu.au
Nature
|December 14, 2007
Resumen
La Vía Láctea es la Vía Láctea.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La astronomía y la astrofísica.
- Formación de la estructura cósmica Formación de la estructura cósmica
- Evolución galáctica de la evolución galáctica.
Sus antecedentes:
- El halo de la Vía Láctea contiene datos cruciales sobre los primeros objetos del Universo.
- Estudios anteriores sugirieron una dicotomía en la estructura del halo.
- La evidencia de esta dicotomía se basó en pequeños tamaños de muestra.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para demostrar definitivamente que el halo de la Vía Láctea es divisible en dos componentes distintos.
- Para caracterizar las diferencias entre estos dos componentes del halo.
- Para inferir los mecanismos de formación de cada componente.
Principales métodos:
- Análisis de perfiles de densidad espacial.
- Examen de las características orbitales estelares.
- Medición de la metalicidad estelar (abundancia de elementos pesados).
Principales resultados:
- El halo es claramente divisible en un componente interno y un componente externo.
- El halo interno exhibe una rotación progresiva y una mayor metalicidad.
- El halo externo muestra rotación retrógrada y menor metalicidad (un tercio del halo interno).
Conclusiones:
- Las distintas propiedades sugieren caminos de formación fundamentalmente diferentes para los halos internos y externos.
- El halo interno probablemente se formó a través de fusiones disipacionales.
- El halo externo probablemente se formó a través de fusiones sin disipación y la interrupción de las mareas de los grupos proto-galácticos.
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