期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 437, 期 1, 页码 116-131出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1862
关键词
blue stragglers; stars: carbon; stars: horizontal branch; Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
资金
- European Research Council under the European Union [308024]
- Royal Society
- STFC
- ERC
- NSF [AST0807498]
- STFC [ST/L001381/1, ST/K000985/1, ST/K001000/1, PP/E00119X/1, ST/H00856X/1, ST/H002235/1, ST/M006948/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K001000/1, ST/H00243X/1, PP/E00119X/1, ST/L001381/1, ST/H002235/1, ST/H00856X/1, ST/M006948/1, ST/K000985/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1313006] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Using a variety of stellar tracers - blue horizontal branch stars, main-sequence turn-off stars and red giants - we follow the path of the Sagittarius (Sgr) stream across the sky in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. Our study presents new Sgr debris detections, accurate distances and line-of-sight velocities that together help to shed new light on the puzzle of the Sgr tails. For both the leading and the trailing tails, we trace the points of their maximal extent, or apocentric distances, and find that they lie at R-L = 47.8 +/- 0.5 kpc and R-T = 102.5 +/- 2.5 kpc, respectively. The angular difference between the apocentres is 93.degrees 2 +/- 3.degrees 5, which is smaller than predicted for logarithmic haloes. Such differential orbital precession can be made consistent with models of the Milky Way in which the dark matter density falls more quickly with radius. However, currently, no existing Sgr disruption simulation can explain the entirety of the observational data. Based on its position and radial velocity, we show that the unusually large globular cluster NGC 2419 can be associated with the Sgr trailing stream. We measure the precession of the orbital plane of the Sgr debris in the Milky Way potential and show that, surprisingly, Sgr debris in the primary (brighter) tails evolves differently from the secondary (fainter) tails, both in the north and the south.
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