Revealing Substructure in the Galactic Halo - The SEKBO RR Lyrae Survey

Details Revealing Substructure in the Galactic Halo - The SEKBO RR Lyrae Survey Revealing Substructure in the Galactic Halo - The SEKBO RR Lyrae Survey

2007-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/0711.2337v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

59 pages, 21 figures. ApJ accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/526516

We present a search for RR Lyrae variable stars from archival observations of the Southern Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Object survey. The survey covers 1675 square degrees along the ecliptic to a mean depth of V=19.5, i.e. a heliocentric distance of ~50kpc for RR Lyrae stars. The survey reveals 2016 RR Lyrae candidates. Follow-up photometric monitoring of a subset of these candidates shows (24+/-12)% contamination by non-RR Lyrae variables. We derive a map of over-density of RR Lyraes in the halo that reveals a series of structures coincident with the leading and trailing arms of debris from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. One of the regions of over-density is found on the trailing arm, 200 deg. from the main body of the Sagittarius dwarf at a distance of ~45kpc. This distant detection of the stellar population of the outer trailing arm of Sagittarius offers a tight constraint on the motion of the dwarf galaxy. A distinctly separate region of over-density is seen towards the Virgo Over Density.

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