Search for Galactic runaway stars using Gaia Data Release 1 and HIPPARCOS proper motions
- Author(s)
- J. Maíz Apellániz, M. Pantaleoni González, R. H. Barbá, S. Simón-Díaz, I. Negueruela, D. J. Lennon, A. Sota, E. Trigueros Páez
- Abstract
Context. The first Gaia Data Release (DR1) significantly improved the previously available proper motions for the majority of the Tycho-2 stars. Aims: We wish to detect runaway stars using Gaia DR1 proper motions and compare our results with previous searches. Methods: Runaway O stars and BA supergiants were detected using a 2D proper motion method. The sample was selected using Simbad, spectra from our GOSSS project, literature spectral types, and photometry processed using the code CHORIZOS. Results: We detect 76 runaway stars, 17 (possibly 19) of them with no prior identification as such, with an estimated detection rate of approximately one half of the real runaway fraction. An age effect appears to be present, with objects of spectral subtype B1 and later having traveled for longer distances than runaways of earlier subtypes. We also tentatively propose that the fraction of runaways is lower among BA supergiants that among O stars, but further studies using future Gaia data releases are needed to confirm this. The frequency of fast rotators is high among runaway O stars, which indicates that a significant fraction of them (and possibly the majority) is produced in supernova explosions. The spectral types in Table 2 will be added to the spectral types in the three GOSSS survey papers and in Maíz Apellániz et al. (2018)http:// and the resulting table will be available from the GOSC web site gosc.cab.inta-csic.es.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de La Serena, Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Universidad de Alicante, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)
- Journal
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Volume
- 616
- ISSN
- 0004-6361
- Publication date
- 08-2018
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e1957df9-61af-44ca-93e7-c1cda582a695