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The Low-α Splash Population in the Milky Way

  • Authors: Lais Borbolato, João A. S. Amarante, Hélio D. Perottoni, Silvia Rossi, Victor P. Debattista, Zhao-Yu Li, Nathan Deg, Tigran Khachaturyants

Lais Borbolato et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Distribution of azimuthal velocity Vϕ for the low- and high-α samples in the upper and middle panels, respectively. The inner panels show a zoom on the left tail region of each distribution. The bottom panel shows the cumulative distribution of Vϕ for both samples. The dashed vertical line at Vϕ = 100 km s−1 indicates the cutoff used to select the Splash population. For the Gaussian fit, we found a mean of 〈Vϕ〉 = 221 km s−1 and a standard deviation of ﹩{\sigma }_{{V}_{\phi }}=24﹩ km s−1 for the low-α disk, while for the high-α sample, the values are 〈Vϕ〉 = 181 km s−1 and ﹩{\sigma }_{{V}_{\phi }}=43﹩ km s−1.

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