The Ghost of Sagittarius and Lumps in the Halo of the Milky Way
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory · +8 more institutions
Abstract
We identify new structures in the halo of the Milky Way from positions, colors, and magnitudes of five million stars detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most of these stars are within 1.degrees26 of the celestial equator. We present color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for stars in two previously discovered, tidally disrupted structures. The CMDs and turnoff colors are consistent with those of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, as had been predicted. In one direction, we are even able to detect a clump of red stars, similar to that of the Sagittarius dwarf, from stars spread across 110 deg(2) of sky. Focusing on stars with the colors of F turnoff objects, we identify at least five additional overdensities of…
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Authors
19- HJHeidi Jo NewbergCorresponding
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- BYBrian Yanny
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- CRConnie Rockosi
University of Chicago
- EKEva K. Grebel
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
- HRHans‐Walter Rix
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Topics & keywords
- Milky Way
- Sagittarius
- Stars
- Galactic plane
- Galactic halo
- Sky
- Spiral galaxy
- Halo