Probing the Canis Major stellar over-density as due to the Galactic warp

Details Probing the Canis Major stellar over-density as due to the Galactic warp Probing the Canis Major stellar over-density as due to the Galactic warp

2004-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405526v1

Astron.Astrophys. 421 (2004) L29-L32

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A Letters, 4 pages

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20040183

Proper-motion, star counts and photometric catalog simulations are used to explain the detected stellar over-density in the region of Canis Major (CMa), claimed to be the core of a disrupted dwarf galaxy (Martin et al. 2004, Bellazzini et al. 2003), as due to the Galactic warp and flare in the external disk. We compare the kinematics of CMa M-giant selected sample with surrounding Galactic disk stars in the UCAC2 catalog and find no peculiar proper motion signature: CMa stars mimic thick disk kinematics. Moreover, when taking into account the Galactic warp and flare of the disk, 2MASS star count profiles reproduce the CMa stellar over-density. This star count analysis is confirmed by direct comparison with synthetic color-magnitude diagrams simulated with the Besancon models (Robin et al. 2003) that include the warp and flare of the disk. The presented evidence casts doubt on the identification of the CMa over-density as the core of a disrupted Milky Way satellite. This however does not make clear the origin of over-densities responsible for the ring structure in the anticenter direction of the Galactic halo (Newberg et al. 2002; Yanny et al. 2003; Zaggia et al. 2004, in preparation).

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