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| DOI | 10.1088/0004-637X/765/2/154 | ||||
| Año | 2013 | ||||
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Autores Afiliación Chile
Instituciones Chile
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We present the analysis of 1207 RR Lyrae found in photometry taken by the Catalina Survey's Mount Lemmon telescope. By combining accurate distances for these stars with measurements for similar to 14,000 type-ab RR Lyrae from the Catalina Schmidt telescope, we reveal an extended association that reaches Galactocentric distances beyond 100 kpc and overlaps the Sagittarius stream system. This result confirms earlier evidence for the existence of an outer halo tidal stream resulting from a disrupted stellar system. By comparing the RR Lyrae source density with that expected based on halo models, we find the detection has similar to 8 sigma significance. We investigate the distances, radial velocities, metallicities, and period-amplitude distribution of the RR Lyrae. We find that both radial velocities and distances are inconsistent with current models of the Sagittarius stream. We also find tentative evidence for a division in source metallicities for the most distant sources. Following prior analyses, we compare the locations and distances of the RR Lyrae with photometrically selected candidate horizontal branch stars and find supporting evidence that this structure spans at least 60 degrees of the sky. We investigate the prospects of an association between the stream and the unusual globular cluster NGC 2419.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Drake, Andrew J. | Hombre |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos |
| 2 | Catelan, Marcio | Hombre |
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
Nucleo Milenio para la Via Lactea - Chile Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines - Chile Milky Way Millennium Nucleus - Chile |
| 3 | Djorgovski, S. G. | - |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos |
| 4 | Torrealba, G. | - |
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
Nucleo Milenio para la Via Lactea - Chile Milky Way Millennium Nucleus - Chile |
| 5 | Graham, M. J. | Hombre |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos |
| 6 | Mahabal, A. A. | Hombre |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos |
| 7 | PRIETO-KATUNARIC, JOSE LUIS | Hombre |
Princeton Univ - Estados Unidos
Princeton University - Estados Unidos |
| 8 | Donalek, C. | - |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos |
| 9 | Williams, R. | - |
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
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| 10 | Williams, R. | - |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
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| 10 | Larson, S. | - |
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos
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| 11 | Christensen, E. | Hombre |
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos |
| 12 | Beshore, E. | - |
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos |
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| National Science Foundation |
| Proyecto Basal |
| U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Proyecto Anillo |
| NASA |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science |
| Proyecto FONDECYT |
| STScI |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the Science Mission Directorate Near-Earth Objects Observations Program |
| Ministry for the Economy, Development, and Tourism's Programa Inicativa Cientifica Milenio |
| NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant |
| Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien |
| Agradecimiento |
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| CRTS and CSDR1 are supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants AST-0909182 and CNS-0540369. The CSS survey is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNG05GF22G issued through the Science Mission Directorate Near-Earth Objects Observations Program. J.L.P. acknowledges support from NASA through Hubble Fellowship Grant HF-51261.01-A awarded by the STScI, which is operated by AURA, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS 5-26555. Support for M.C. and G.T. is provided by the Ministry for the Economy, Development, and Tourism's Programa Inicativa Cientifica Milenio through grant P07-021-F, awarded to The Milky Way Millennium Nucleus; by Proyecto Basal PFB-06/2007; by Proyecto FONDECYT Regular 1110326; and by Proyecto Anillo ACT-86. SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III Web site is http://www.sdss3.org/. |