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 |
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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 |