Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-05-31
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:L11-L15,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00198.x
We present evidence for eight new clumps of blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars discovered in a catalogue of these stars compiled from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by Sirko et al. published in 2004. Clumps are identified by selecting pairs of stars separated by distances <= 2 kpc and with differences in galactocentric radial velocities < 25 km/s. Each clump contains four or more stars. Four of the clumps have supporting evidence: two of them also contain overdensities of RR Lyrae stars which makes their reality very likely. At least one of the clumps is likely to be associated with the tidal debris of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We emphasize that more accurate observations of the radial velocities or proper motions of the stars in the clumps as well as the identification of other halo stars in these regions are required to establish the reality of the remaining clumps.
Clewley Lee
Kinman Thomas D.
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