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Understanding radial migration is a crucial point to build relevant chemical and dynamical evolution models of the Milky Way disk. In this paper, we analyze a high-resolution N-body simulation of a Milky Way-type galaxy to study the role that the slowing down of a stellar bar has is generating migration from the inner to the outer disk. Stellar particles are trapped by the main resonances (corotation and Outer Lindblad resonance) which then propagate outwards across the disk due to the bar slowing down. Once the bar strength reaches its maximal amplitude, some of the stars, delivered to the outer disk, escape the resonances and some of them settle on nearly circular orbits. The number of the escaped stars gradually increases also due to the decrease of the bar strength when the boxy/peanut bulge forms. We show that this mechanism is not limited only to stars on nearly circular orbits: also stars initially on more eccentric orbits can be transferred outwards (out to the OLR location) and can end up on nearly circular orbits. Therefore, the propagation of the bar resonances outwards can induce the circularization of the orbits of some of the migrating stars. The mechanism investigated in this paper can explain the presence of metal-rich stars at the solar vicinity and more generally in the outer galactic disk. Our dynamical model predicts that up to 3% of stars in between of corotation and the OLR can be formed in the innermost region of the Milky Way. The epoch of the Milky Way bar formation can be potentially constrained by analyzing the age distribution of the most metal-rich stars at the solar vicinity.
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The relationship between the compositions of giant planets and their host stars is of fundamental interest in understanding planet formation. The solar system giant planets are enhanced above solar composition in metals, both in their visible atmospheres and bulk compositions. A key question is whether the metal enrichment of giant exoplanets is correlated with that of their host stars. Thorngren et al. (2016) showed that in cool (Teq < 1000 K) giant exoplanets, the total heavy-element mass increases with total Mp and the heavy element enrichment relative to the parent star decreases with total Mp. In their work, the host star metallicity was derived from literature [Fe/H] measurements. Here we conduct a more detailed and uniform study to determine whether different host star metals (C, O, Mg, Si, Fe, and Ni) correlate with the bulk metallicity of their planets, using correlation tests and Bayesian linear fits. We present new host star abundances of 19 cool giant planet systems, and combine these with existing host star data for a total of 22 cool giant planet systems (24 planets). Surprisingly, we find no clear correlation between stellar metallicity and planetary residual metallicity (the relative amount of metal versus that expected from the planet mass alone), which is in conflict with common predictions from formation models. We also find a potential correlation between residual planet metals and stellar volatile-to-refractory element ratios. These results provide intriguing new relationships between giant planet and host star compositions for future modeling studies of planet formation.
We aim to characterize high-velocity (HiVel) stars in the solar vicinity both chemically and kinematically using the fourth data release of the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). We used a sample of 57 HiVel stars with Galactic rest-frame velocities larger than 275 km s$^{-1}$. With 6D position and velocity information, we integrated the orbits of the HiVel stars and found that, on average, they reach out to 13 kpc from the Galactic plane and have relatively eccentric orbits consistent with the Galactic halo. Using the stellar parameters and [$alpha$/Fe] estimates from RAVE, we found the metallicity distribution of the HiVel stars peak at [M/H] = -1.2 dex and is chemically consistent with the inner halo. There are a few notable exceptions that include a hypervelocity star (HVS) candidate, an extremely high-velocity bound halo star, and one star that is kinematically consistent with the halo but chemically consistent with the disk. High-resolution spectra were obtained for the metal-rich HiVel star candidate and the second highest velocity star in the sample. Using these high-resolution data, we report the discovery of a metal-rich halo star that has likely been dynamically ejected into the halo from the Galactic thick disk. This discovery could aid in explaining the assembly of the most metal-rich component of the Galactic halo.
We report the detection of a large sample of high-$alpha$-metal-rich stars on the low giant branch with $2.6<logg<3.3$ dex in the LAMOST-MRS survey. This special group corresponds to an intermediate-age population of $5-9$ Gyr based on the $[Fe/H]$-$[C/N]$ diagram and age-$[C/N]$ calibration. A comparison group is selected to have solar $alpha$ ratio at super metallicity, which is young and has a narrow age range around 3 Gyr. Both groups have thin-disk like kinematics but the former shows slightly large velocity dispersions. The special group shows a larger extension in vertical distance toward 1.2 kpc, a second peak at smaller Galactic radius and a larger fraction of super metal rich stars with $[Fe/H]>0.2$ than the comparison group. These properties strongly indicate its connection with the outer bar/bulge region at $R=3-5$ kpc. A tentative interpretation of this special group is that its stars were formed in the X-shaped bar/bulge region, close to its corotation radius, where radial migration is the most intense, and brings them to present locations at 9 kpc and beyond. Low eccentricities and slightly outward radial excursions of its stars are consistent with this scenario. Its kinematics (cold) and chemistry ($[alpha/Fe]$ $sim 0.1$) further support the formation of the instability-driven X-shaped bar/bulge from the thin disk.
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