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Mira variables in the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc: discovery and classification
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WoS WOS:000864852000004
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85146162742
DOI 10.1093/MNRAS/STAC2274
Año 2022
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Abstract



The properties of the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc give crucial information on the epoch of bar formation. Mira variables are promising bright candidates to study the nuclear stellar disc, and through their period-age relation dissect its star formation history. We report on a sample of 1782 Mira variable candidates across the central 3 x 3 deg(2) of the Galaxy using the multi-epoch infrared VISTA Variables in Via Lactea (VVV) survey. We describe the algorithms employed to select candidate variable stars and then model their light curves using periodogram and Gaussian process methods. By combining with WISE, 2MASS, and other archival photometry, we model the multiband light curves to refine the periods and inspect the amplitude variation between different photometric bands. The infrared brightness of the Mira variables means many are too bright and missed by VVV. However, our sample follows a well-defined selection function as expected from artificial star tests. The multiband photometry is modelled using stellar models with circumstellar dust that characterize the mass-loss rates. We demonstrate how greater than or similar to 90 per cent of our sample is consistent with O-rich chemistry. Comparison to period-luminosity relations demonstrates that the bulk of the short period stars are situated at the Galactic Centre distance. Many of the longer period variables are very dusty, falling significantly under the O-rich Magellanic Cloud and solar neighbourhood period-luminosity relations and exhibit high mass-loss rates of similar to 2.5 x 10(-5) M-circle dot yr(-1). The period distribution appears consistent with the nuclear stellar disc forming greater than or similar to 8 Gyr ago, although it is not possible to disentangle the relative contributions of the nuclear stellar disc and the contaminating bulge.

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Sanders, Jason L. Hombre UCL - Reino Unido
UNIV CAMBRIDGE - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido
Institute of Astronomy - Reino Unido
2 Matsunaga, N. Hombre Univ Law - Japón
The University of Tokyo - Japón
3 Kawata, Daisuke Hombre Univ Coll London - Reino Unido
UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido
4 Smith, L. C. Mujer UCL - Reino Unido
Univ Hertfordshire - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido
University of Hertfordshire - Reino Unido
5 MINNITI-DEL BARCO, DANTE Hombre Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello - Chile
Vatican Observ - Vaticano
Vatican Observatory - Italia
6 Lucas, Philip Hombre Univ Hertfordshire - Reino Unido
University of Hertfordshire - Reino Unido

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FONDECYT
Royal Society
Spanish MINECO
Leverhulme Trust
European Research Council (ERC)
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
ESO Telescopes at the La Silla or Paranal Observatories under ESO programme
ANID Basal Project
Newton Trust

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We thank the referee for their insightful comments that helped improve the presentation of the results. JLS acknowledges the support of the Royal Society (URF\R1\191555) and the Leverhulme and Newton Trusts. DM gratefully acknowledges support by the ANID BASAL projects ACE210002 and FB210003, and Fondecyt Project No. 1220724. We thank Fatemeh Nikzat for their useful comments. This paper made used of the Whole Sky Database (wsdb) created by Sergey Koposov and maintained at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge by Sergey Koposov, Vasily Belokurov, and Wyn Evans with financial support from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the European Research Council (ERC). This paper made use of NUMPY (van der Walt, Colbert & Varoquaux 2011), SCIPY (Virtanen et al. 2020), MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007), SEABORN (Waskom 2021), and ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration 2013; PriceWhelan et al. 2018). We acknowledge the use of Jake VanderPlas' NFFT package (https://github.com/jakevdp/nfft).This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.e sa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla or Paranal Observatories under ESO programme ID 179.B-2002. This research has made use of the International Variable Star Index (VSX) database, operated at AAVSO, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. This research is based on observations with AKARI, a JAXA project with the participation of ESA. This research has made use of the SVO Filter Profile Service (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/theory/fps/) supported from the Spanish MINECO through grant AYA201784089.

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