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Chinese astronomers discover 591 high-velocity stars with LAMOST and Gaia – Phys.org

A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars based…

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A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars based on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and Gaia, and 43 of them can even escape from the Galaxy.
The study was published online in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series on Dec. 17.
After the first high-velocity star was discovered in 2005, over 550 ones have been discovered with multiple…

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