Mira variables in the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc: Discovery and classification

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dc.contributor.authorSanders, Jason L.
dc.contributor.authorMatsunaga, Noriyuki
dc.contributor.authorKawata, Daisuke
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Leigh C.
dc.contributor.authorMinniti, Dante
dc.contributor.authorLucas, Philip W.
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-11T16:27:43Z
dc.date.available2023-07-11T16:27:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-11
dc.descriptionIndexación: Scopuses
dc.description.abstractThe 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 $3\times 3\, \mathrm{deg}2$ 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 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. The period distribution appears consistent with the nuclear stellar disc forming ago, although it is not possible to disentangle the relative contributions of the nuclear stellar disc and the contaminating bulge. © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.es
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 517, Issue 1, Pages 257 - 2801, November 2022es
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/stac2274
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.unab.cl/xmlui/handle/ria/51538
dc.language.isoenes
dc.publisherOxford University Presses
dc.subjectGalaxy: bulgees
dc.subjectGalaxy: centrees
dc.subjectGalaxy: stellar contentes
dc.subjectstars: AGB and post-AGBes
dc.subjectstars: variables: generales
dc.titleMira variables in the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc: Discovery and classificationes
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