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Schuster, William J.; Moreno, Edmundo; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Fernández-Alvar, Emma; Carigi, Leticia; Recio-Blanco, Alejandra; Beers, Timothy C.; Chiappini, Cristina; Anders, Friedrich; Santiago, Basílio X.; Queiroz, Anna B. A.; Pérez-Villegas, Angeles; Zamora, O.; García-Hernández, D. A.; Ortigoza-Urdaneta, Mario
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 487, Issue 1, p.1462-1479
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2019
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We report an analysis of the metal-rich tail ([Fe/H] > -0.75) of
stars located at distances from the Galactic plane up to |z| ˜ 10
kpc, observed by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution
Experiment (APOGEE). We examine the chemistry, kinematics, and dynamics
of this metal-rich sample using chemical abundances and radial
velocities provided by the 14th APOGEE data release (DR14) and proper
motions from the second Gaia data release (DR2). The analysis reveals
three chemically different stellar populations in the [Mg/Fe] versus
[Fe/H] space - a high-[Mg/Fe] and low-[Mg/Fe] populations, and a third
group with intermediate [Mg/Fe] ˜ +0.1 - as well as for other
chemical elements. We find that they are also kinematically and
dynamically distinct. The high-[Mg/Fe] population exhibits a prograde
rotation which decreases down to 0 as |zmax| increases, as
well as eccentric orbits that are more bound and closer to the plane.
The low-[Mg/Fe] stars are likely Sagittarius members, moving in
less-bound orbits reaching larger distances from the centre and the
Galactic plane. The intermediate-[Mg/Fe] stars resembles the two stellar
overdensities lying about |z| ˜ 5 kpc recently reported in the
literature, for which a disc origin has been claimed. We report the
identification of new members of these two disc-heated overdensities.
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