A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Probabilities for Solar Siblings




AuthorsValtonen Mauri, Bajkova A.T., Bobylev V.V., Mylläri A.

PublisherSpringer

Publishing placeDordrecht

Publication year2015

JournalCelestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Journal acronymCeMDA

Volume121

Issue2

First page 107

Last page119

Number of pages13

ISSN0923-2958

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-014-9592-1


Abstract

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.




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