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2009ApJ...696L..13P - Astrophys. J., 696, L13-L16 (2009/May-1)

The lost siblings of the Sun.

PORTEGIES ZWART S.F.

Abstract (from CDS):

The anomalous chemical abundances and the structure of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt observed in the solar system constrain the initial mass and radius of the star cluster in which the Sun was born to M ≃ 500-3000Mand R ≃ 1-3 pc. When the cluster dissolved, the siblings of the Sun dispersed through the galaxy, but they remained on a similar orbit around the Galactic center. Today these stars hide among the field stars, but 10-60 of them are still present within a distance of ∼100 pc. These siblings of the Sun can be identified by accurate measurements of their chemical abundances, positions, and their velocities. Finding even a few will strongly constrain the parameters of the parental star cluster and the location in the Galaxy where we were born.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics - Galaxy: stellar content - solar system: formation - solar system: general - Sun: general

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