Detection of the Main Sequence Turn-off of a Newly Discovered Milky Way Halo Structure in the Triangulum-Andromeda Region

Details Detection of the Main Sequence Turn-off of a Newly Discovered Milky Way Halo Structure in the Triangulum-Andromeda Region Detection of the Main Sequence Turn-off of a Newly Discovered Milky Way Halo Structure in the Triangulum-Andromeda Region

2004-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406221v1

Astrophys.J. 615 (2004) 738-743

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 5 figures, submitted Feb. 9, 2004 to Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/424586

An upper main sequence (MS) and main-sequence turn-off (MSTO) feature appears in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of a large area photometric survey of the southern half of M31 stretching to M33. Imaging in the Washington M,T_2,DDO51 photometric system allows us to remove the background M31/M33 giants from our CMD and more clearly define the dwarf star feature, which has an MSTO near M ~ 20.5. The corresponding stellar population shows little density variation over the 12 X 6 square degree area of the sky sampled and is of very low surface brightness, >32 mag/arcsec^2. We show that this feature is not the same as a previously identified, MS+MSTO in the foreground of the Andromeda Galaxy that has been associated with the tidal stream ringing the Milky Way disk at less than half the distance. Thus, the new stellar system is a separate, more distant entity, perhaps a segment of tidal debris from a disrupted satellite galaxy. It is most likely related to the structure with similar distance, location and density uniformity seen as an excess of K and M giants in the Two Micron All-Sky Survey reported in the companion paper by Rocha-Pinto et al. (2004).

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