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Stars in the local galactic thick disk and halo in gaia EDR3: A catalogue of half a million local main-sequence stars with photometric metallicities

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We present a catalogue of 551,214 main-sequence stars in the local (d < 2 kpc) Galactic thick disk and halo, based on a search of stars with large proper motions ($\mu… Click to show full abstract

We present a catalogue of 551,214 main-sequence stars in the local (d < 2 kpc) Galactic thick disk and halo, based on a search of stars with large proper motions ($\mu _{\rm tot} > 40.0~\rm mas\, yr^{-1}$) in the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We derive photometric metallicity calibrated from the colour-luminosity-metallicity distribution of 20,047 stars with spectroscopic metallicities, collected from various spectroscopic surveys, including SDSS SEGUE/APOGEE, GALAH DR3, and LAMOST DR6. We combine these results to construct an empirical colour-magnitude-metallicity grid, which can be used to estimate photometric metallicities for low-mass metal-poor stars of K and M subtypes from their absolute G magnitude and colour values. We find that low-mass, high-velocity stars in our catalogue share similar kinematics as reported in recent studies of more luminous Galactic halo stars. The pseudo-kinematic analysis of our sample recovers the main local halo structures, including the Gaia-Enceladus Stream and the Helmi stream; aside from these the local halo stars appear to show a remarkably smooth distribution in velocity space. Since the future Gaia data release will provide radial velocity measurements for only a small number of our sample, our catalogue provide targets of high interest for the future spectroscopic observation programs like SDSS-V, DESI MW survey, WEAVE, and/or 4MOST.

Keywords: thick disk; sequence stars; main sequence; stars local; halo; galactic thick

Journal Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year Published: 2021

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