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2020AJ....160..279K - Astron. J., 160, 279-279 (2020/December-0)

Untangling the Galaxy. II. Structure within 3 kpc.

KOUNKEL M., COVEY K. and STASSUN K.G.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the results of the hierarchical clustering analysis of the Gaia DR2 data to search for clusters, comoving groups, and other stellar structures. The current paper builds on the sample from the previous work, extending it in distance from 1 to 3 kpc and increasing the number of identified structures up to 8292. To aid in the analysis of the population properties, we developed a neural network called Auriga to robustly estimate the age, extinction, and distance of a stellar group based on the input photometry and parallaxes of the individual members. We apply Auriga to derive the properties of not only the structures found in this paper, but also previously identified open clusters. Through this work, we examine the temporal structure of the spiral arms. Specifically, we find that the Sagittarius Arm has moved by >500 pc in the last 100 Myr and the Perseus Arm has been experiencing a relative lull in star formation activity over the last 25 Myr. We confirm the findings of the previous paper on the transient nature of the spiral arms, with the timescale of transition of a few 100 Myr. Finally, we find a peculiar ∼1 Gyr old stream of stars that appears to be heliocentric. Its origin is unclear.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Milky Way dynamics - Galaxy structure - Stellar kinematics - Star clusters - Stellar associations - Stellar ages

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/AJ/160/279): table1.dat table2.dat tablea1.dat>

Nomenclature: Table 2: [KC2019] Theia NNNN (Nos 1641-8313).

Status at CDS : All or part of tables of objects will not be ingested in SIMBAD.

Simbad objects: 7

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