A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Probabilities for Solar Siblings
Authors: Valtonen Mauri, Bajkova A.T., Bobylev V.V., Mylläri A.
Publisher: Springer
Publishing place: Dordrecht
Publication year: 2015
Journal: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
Journal acronym: CeMDA
Volume: 121
Issue: 2
First page : 107
Last page: 119
Number of pages: 13
ISSN: 0923-2958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-014-9592-1
We have shown previously (Bobylev et al. 2011) that some of the stars in the Solar neighborhood today may have originated in the same star cluster as the Sun, and could thus be called Solar Siblings. In this work we investigate the sensitivity of this result to Galactic models and to parameters of these models, and also extend the sample of orbits. There are a number of good candidates for the Sibling category, but due to the long period of orbit evolution since the break-up of the birth cluster of the Sun, one can only attach probabilities of membership. We find that up to 10% (but more likely around 1%) of the members of the Sun's birth cluster could be still found within 100 pc from the Sun today.