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To calibrate precise photometric distances for metal-poor giant stars and identify candidates with sufficient velocities to escape the Milky Way.

September 17, 2026The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOpen Access

Photometric Distances for Metal-poor Giants and a Search for Hypervelocity Stars with LAMOST DR13 and Gaia DR3

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SXShuai Xu HYHaibo Yuan BHBowen Huang

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Astrometric and spectroscopic analysis reveals nine metal-poor hypervelocity star candidates across 41,331 giants, highlighting origins in the Galactic disk and Sagittarius stream.

Key Points

To calibrate precise photometric distances for metal-poor giant stars and identify candidates with sufficient velocities to escape the Milky Way.
Calibrated a metallicity-dependent color–absolute-magnitude relation using a high-quality reference sample to determine photometric distances for 41,331 metal-poor giant stars.
Combined photometric distances with LAMOST DR13 radial velocities and Gaia DR3 proper motions to model orbital dynamics under the McMillan Galactic potential.
Screened candidates through spectral inspection to remove chromospherically active binaries and conducted backward orbit integrations to identify their origins.
Derived absolute magnitudes with a scatter of 0.24 mag, achieving an intrinsic distance uncertainty of approximately 9.7%.
Identified 13 initially unbound star candidates, leaving nine high-confidence metal-poor hypervelocity candidates after excluding contaminating binary and nonstandard systems.
Demonstrated through backward orbit integration that one candidate likely originated from the Galactic disk, while three candidates trace back to the Sagittarius stream.

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Xu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb6445f706d05830e49d1 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ae91e5

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September 17, 2026The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOpen Access

Photometric Distances for Metal-poor Giants and a Search for Hypervelocity Stars with LAMOST DR13 and Gaia DR3

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SXShuai Xu HYHaibo Yuan BHBowen Huang

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Overview

Astrometric and spectroscopic analysis reveals nine metal-poor hypervelocity star candidates across 41,331 giants, highlighting origins in the Galactic disk and Sagittarius stream.

Key Points

To calibrate precise photometric distances for metal-poor giant stars and identify candidates with sufficient velocities to escape the Milky Way.
Calibrated a metallicity-dependent color–absolute-magnitude relation using a high-quality reference sample to determine photometric distances for 41,331 metal-poor giant stars.
Combined photometric distances with LAMOST DR13 radial velocities and Gaia DR3 proper motions to model orbital dynamics under the McMillan Galactic potential.
Screened candidates through spectral inspection to remove chromospherically active binaries and conducted backward orbit integrations to identify their origins.
Derived absolute magnitudes with a scatter of 0.24 mag, achieving an intrinsic distance uncertainty of approximately 9.7%.
Identified 13 initially unbound star candidates, leaving nine high-confidence metal-poor hypervelocity candidates after excluding contaminating binary and nonstandard systems.
Demonstrated through backward orbit integration that one candidate likely originated from the Galactic disk, while three candidates trace back to the Sagittarius stream.

Cite This Study

Xu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb6445f706d05830e49d1 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ae91e5

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