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An Old, Low-mass, Metal-poor Hypervelocity Star Candidate Consistent with a Galactic Center Origin

  • Authors: Shunhong Deng, Yang Huang, Haozhu Fu, Yongkang Sun, Qikang Feng, Guoyang Chen, Huawei Zhang

Shunhong Deng et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

The contours show the intersection regions of the backward-integrated orbits with the Galactic disk midplane in the XY-plane for the first crossing. The gray region is derived using the parallax-based distance, while the colored region is derived using the improved distance from isochrone fitting constrained by photometric and spectroscopic measurements. The dashed lines for the parallax-based distance and the black solid lines for the improved distance from isochrone fitting mark the 16th, 50th, and 84th percentiles (from inner to outer) of the plane-crossing distribution, corresponding to the 1σ interval around the median.

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