A New Cold Stream near the Southern Galactic Pole

Yang, Yong and Zhao, Jing-Kun and Xue, Xiang-Xiang and Ye, Xian-Hao and Zhao, Gang (2022) A New Cold Stream near the Southern Galactic Pole. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 935 (2). L38. ISSN 2041-8205

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Abstract

We report the discovery of a cold stream near the southern Galactic pole (dubbed as SGP-S) detected in Gaia Early Data Release 3. The stream is at a heliocentric distance of ∼9.5 kpc and spans nearly 58° by 0fdg6 on sky. The color–magnitude diagram of SGP-S indicates an old and metal-poor (age ∼12 Gyr, [M/H] ∼ −2.0 dex) stellar population. The stream's surface brightness reaches an exceedingly low level of ΣG ≃ 36.2 mag arcsec−2. Neither extant globular clusters nor other known streams are associated with SGP-S.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: East Asian Archive > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email support@eastasianarchive.com
Date Deposited: 24 Apr 2023 06:37
Last Modified: 08 Aug 2025 03:59
URI: http://authors.go2articles.com/id/eprint/554

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