exploring the origin of the stellar halo of the milky way
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Exploring the origin of the stellar halo of the Milky Way. Eric Bell Ann Arbor 29 July 2009. Stellar halo : fossil record of assembly?. Dwarf galaxies are disrupting and contributing to the stellar halo 1% of stellar mass. Bullock & Johnston 2005 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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.Exploring the origin of the stellar halo of the Milky Way
Eric Bell
Ann Arbor 29 July 2009
Eric Bell
Ann Arbor 29 July 2009
29 July 2009 UM Ann ArborBell et al.
Stellar halo : fossil record of assembly?
Dwarf galaxies are disrupting and contributing to the stellar halo 1% of stellar mass
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Bullock & Johnston 2005Bullock & Johnston 2005See also Ibata et al. 1994, 1995See also Ibata et al. 1994, 1995
Majewski et al. 2003, Majewski et al. 2003, Martinez-Delgado et al. 2004Martinez-Delgado et al. 2004
Belokurov et al. 2006Belokurov et al. 2006
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The question
LCDM predicts that stellar halo primarily accreted
Hierarchical build-up of stellar halos clearly happens, but Is it icing on the cake?
Minor addition to halo mostly built up before
Or is it the cake? Major addition to halo
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey
ugriz imaging ~10000 sq. degrees r~23
Spectroscopy for ~106 gals/stars r~17.7
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Study of halos
Color-magnitude diagrams Selection of ‘standard candle’ stars
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ForegroundForegroundDisk low-mass starsDisk low-mass stars
Thick disk turn-off starsThick disk turn-off stars
Halo turn-off Halo turn-off starsstars
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log log ρρ
log rlog r
r ~ 20kpcr ~ 20kpc
A smooth halo model
Previous resultsPrevious results
Morrison et al. 2000Morrison et al. 2000Chiba & Beers 2000Chiba & Beers 2000
Ivesic et al. 2000Ivesic et al. 2000Lemon et al. 2004Lemon et al. 2004
Xu et al. 2006Xu et al. 2006ρρ ~ r ~ r-3-3 - r - r-3.5 -3.5
ρρ ~ r ~ r-2.5-2.5 - r - r-3 -3
ρρ ~ r ~ r-3 -3
c/a ~ 0.6c/a ~ 0.6i.e., stellar halo is oblatei.e., stellar halo is oblate
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Results
‘best’ halo fit is ~r-3, between 5<rgc/kpc<40; perhaps shallower inside 20kpc and steeper outside
Oblate 0.5 < c/a < 0.8
Is smooth model a good fit? RMS of data around model; take off
Poisson in quadrature from RMS
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Results
‘best’ halo fit is ~r-3, between 5<rgc/kpc<40; perhaps shallower inside 20kpc and steeper outside
Oblate 0.5 < c/a < 0.8 BUT, smooth model is a
poor fit RMS/total > 0.4 Indications of more
structure at larger radii
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Comparison with simulations I
Results so far: r-3 halo at <~40kpc 0.5 < c/a < 0.8 M ~ 3.5+/-1.5 x 108
Msun
Smooth halo poor fit
Are these properties consistent with being built up through accretion alone?
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Comparison with simulations II Models build up
stellar halo only through accretion Satellite
population realistic (assumed solution to sub-structure problem)
Bullock & Johnston 2005
Signficant model-to-model scatter
Consistent with observations
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Comparison with simulations III
Structure of residuals similar to the data
Milky Way halo consistent with being built up through accretion alone
Bell et al. 2008Bell et al. 2008
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Population variationsin the stellar halo
Probe for stellar pops.differences using BHB stars
Use ugr colors to select high probability BHB candidates
Bell, Xue, Ruhland, Bell, Xue, Ruhland, Rix, Hogg 2009Rix, Hogg 2009
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BHBs convolved with MSTO distance uncertainties
BHB distribution richly-structured
Different halo structures have distinctive populations
BHBBHB MSTOMSTO BHB/MSTOBHB/MSTO
Bell, Xue, Ruhland, Bell, Xue, Ruhland, Rix, Hogg 2009Rix, Hogg 2009
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Comparison with 3 simulated halos (Bullock & Johnston 2005)
Color-coded by metallicity
Coherent population variations
Data is in qualitative agreement with expectations from simulations
Bell, Xue, Ruhland, Bell, Xue, Ruhland, Rix, Hogg 2009Rix, Hogg 2009
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M31 stellar haloM31 stellar halo
Very richly structuredVery richly structured
Ferguson et al. 2003Ferguson et al. 2003Ibata et al. 2002..07Ibata et al. 2002..07Zucker et al. 2004Zucker et al. 2004
NGC 5907NGC 5907
Martinez-Delgado et al. 2008Martinez-Delgado et al. 2008
NGC 4013NGC 4013
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Stellar halos Results
Stellar halos richly structured Coherent population variations Quantitatively consistent with simulations in
which stellar halos are formed through tidal disruption of galaxies
Features of this picture In ~MW mass galaxies, bulk of stellar halo comes
from largest progenitors All galaxies have stellar halos; properties set by
how dark halos are populated by stars (Purcell et al. 07)