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Title: | The recurrent impact of the Sagittarius dwarf on the star formation history of the Milky Way | Authors: | Ruiz-Lara, T Gallart, C Bernard, EJ CASSISI, Santi |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Journal: | NATURE ASTRONOMY | Number: | 4 | Issue: | 10 | First Page: | 965 | Abstract: | Satellites orbiting disk galaxies can induce phase space features such as spirality, vertical heating and phase-mixing in their disks. Such features have also been observed in our own Galaxy, but the complexity of the Milky Way disk has only recently been fully mapped by Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) data. This complex behaviour is mainly ascribed to repeated perturbations induced by the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr) along its orbit, pointing to this satellite as the main dynamical architect of the Milky Way disk. Here, we model Gaia DR2-observed colour–magnitude diagrams to obtain a detailed star formation history of the ~2 kpc bubble around the Sun. It reveals three conspicuous and narrow episodes of enhanced star formation that we can precisely date as having occurred 5.7, 1.9 and 1.0 Gyr ago. The timing of these episodes coincides with proposed Sgr pericentre passages according to (1) orbit simulations, (2) phase space features in the Galactic disk and (3) Sgr stellar content. These findings most probably suggest that Sgr has also been an important actor in the build-up of the stellar mass of the Milky Way disk, with the perturbations from Sgr repeatedly triggering major episodes of star formation. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31176 | URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1097-0 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85085318763 |
ISSN: | 2397-3366 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41550-020-1097-0 | Bibcode ADS: | 2020NatAs...4..965R | Fulltext: | open |
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