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  • Stellar Loci VI: An Updated Catalog of the Best and Brightest Metal-poor Stars

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: We employ Gaia, 2MASS, and ALLWISE photometry, as well as astrometric data from Gaia, to search for relatively bright very metal-poor ([Fe/H] $ 10^\circ$. By cross-matching with results derived from medium-resolution ($R \sim$ 1800) from LAMOST DR8, we establish that the success rate for identifying VMP stars is 60.1$\%$ for the Gold sample, 39.2$\%$ for the Silver GW sample, 41.3$\%$ for the Silver GK sample, 15.4$\%$ for the Bronze G sample, 31.7$\%$ for the Bronze WK sample, and 16.6$\%$ for the Low $b$ sample, respectively. An additional strict cut on the quality parameter $RUWE < 1.1$ can further increase the success rate of the Silver GW, Silver GK, and Bronze G samples to 46.9$\%$, 51.6$\%$, and 29.3$\%$, respectively. Our samples provide valuable targets for high-resolution follow-up spectroscopic observations, and are made publicly available.

  • Stellar Loci V: Photometric Metallicities of 27 Million FGK Stars based on Gaia Early Data Release 3

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: We combine LAMOST DR7 spectroscopic data and Gaia EDR3 photometric data to construct high-quality giant (0.7 $< (BP-RP) <$ 1.4) and dwarf (0.5 $< (BP-RP) < $ 1.5) samples in the high Galactic latitude region, with precise corrections for magnitude-dependent systematic errors in the Gaia photometry and careful reddening corrections using empirically determined color- and reddening-dependent coefficients. We use the two samples to build metallicity-dependent stellar loci of Gaia colors for giants and dwarfs, respectively. For a given $(BP-RP)$ color, a one dex change in [Fe/H] results in about a 5 mmag change in $(BP-G)$ color for solar-type stars. These relations are used to determine metallicity estimates from EDR3 colors. Despite the weak sensitivity, the exquisite data quality of these colors enables a typical precision of about $\delta$\,[Fe/H] = 0.2 dex. Our method is valid for FGK stars with $G \leq 16$, [Fe/H] $\geq -2.5$, and $E(B-V) \leq 0.5$. Stars with fainter $G$ magnitudes, lower metallicities, or larger reddening suffer from higher metallicity uncertainties. With the enormous data volume of Gaia, we have measured metallicity estimates for about 27 million stars with 10 $< G \leq 16$ across almost the entire sky, including over 6 million giants and 20 million dwarfs, which can be used for a number of studies. These include investigations of Galactic formation and evolution, the identification of candidate stars for subsequent high-resolution spectroscopic follow-up, the identification of wide binaries, and to obtain metallicity estimates of stars for asteroseismology and exoplanet research.

  • Stellar Loci VI: An Updated Catalog of the Best and Brightest Metal-poor Stars

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: We employ Gaia, 2MASS, and ALLWISE photometry, as well as astrometric data from Gaia, to search for relatively bright very metal-poor ([Fe/H] $ 10^\circ$. By cross-matching with results derived from medium-resolution ($R \sim$ 1800) from LAMOST DR8, we establish that the success rate for identifying VMP stars is 60.1$\%$ for the Gold sample, 39.2$\%$ for the Silver GW sample, 41.3$\%$ for the Silver GK sample, 15.4$\%$ for the Bronze G sample, 31.7$\%$ for the Bronze WK sample, and 16.6$\%$ for the Low $b$ sample, respectively. An additional strict cut on the quality parameter $RUWE < 1.1$ can further increase the success rate of the Silver GW, Silver GK, and Bronze G samples to 46.9$\%$, 51.6$\%$, and 29.3$\%$, respectively. Our samples provide valuable targets for high-resolution follow-up spectroscopic observations, and are made publicly available.

  • Resolving XENON Excess With Decaying Cold Dark Matter

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: We propose a decaying cold dark matter model to explain the excess of electron recoil observed at the XENON1T experiment. In this scenario, the daughter dark matter from the parent dark matter decay easily obtains velocity large enough to saturate the peak of the electron recoil energy around 2.5 keV, and the observed signal rate can be fulfilled by the parent dark matter with a mass of order 10-200 MeV and a lifetime larger than the age of Universe. We verify that this model is consistent with experimental limits from dark matter detections, Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure experiments.

  • WIMPless Dark Matter In EDGES 21-cm Signal

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: The first measurement on the temperature of hydrogen 21-cm signal reported by EDGES strongly favors Coulomb-like interaction between WIMPless dark matter and baryon fluid. We investigate such dark matter both in one- and two-component context, with the light force carrier(s) essential for the Coulomb-like interaction not being photon. Using a conversion of cross sections used by relevant experiments and Boltzmann equations to encode effects of the dark matter-baryon interaction, we show that both cases are robustly excluded by the stringent stellar cooling bounds in the sub-GeV dark matter mass range. The exclusion of one-component case applies to simplified WIMPless dark matter with the light force carrier as dark photon, gauged $B-L$, $L_{e}-L_{\mu}$ or $L_{e}-L_{\tau}$, or axion-like particle, while the exclusion of two-component case applies to simplified WIMPless dark matter with the two light force carriers as two axion-like particles coupled to standard model quarks and leptons respectively.