Solar siblings search with APOGEE and Gaia DR2

We make use of APOGEE and Gaia data to identify stars that are consistent with being born in the same association or star cluster as the Sun. We limit our analysis to stars that match solar abundances within their uncertainties, as they could have formed from the same giant molecular cloud (GMC) as the Sun. We constrain the range of orbital actions that solar siblings can have with a suite of simulations of solar birth clusters evolved in static and time-dependent tidal fields. The static components of each galaxy model are the bulge, disc, and halo, while the various time-dependent components include a bar, spiral arms, and GMCs. In galaxy models without GMCs, simulated solar siblings all have J_R_<122kpc.km/s, 990<L_z_<1986kpc.km/s, and 0.15<J_z_<0.58kpc.km/s. Given the actions of stars in APOGEE and Gaia, we find 104 stars that fall within this range. One candidate in particular, Solar Sibling 1, has both chemistry and actions similar enough to the solar values that strong interactions with the bar or spiral arms are not required for it to be dynamically associated with the Sun. Adding GMCs to the potential can eject solar siblings out of the plane of the disc and increase their J_z_, resulting in a final candidate list of 296 stars. The entire suite of simulations indicate that solar siblings should have J_R_<122kpc.km/s, 353<L_z_<2110kpc.km/s, and J_z_<0.8kpc.km/s. Given these criteria, it is most likely that the association or cluster that the Sun was born in has reached dissolution and is not the commonly cited open cluster M67.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/494/2268/catalog (List of 296 solar sibling candidates)

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/494/2268
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/494/2268
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/494/2268
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/494/2268
Provenance
Creator Webb J.J.; Price-Jones N.; Bovy J.; Portegies Zwart S.; Hunt J.A.S.,Mackereth J.T.; Leung H.W.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2023
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
Contact CDS support team <cds-question(at)unistra.fr>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Exoplanet Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy