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2019MNRAS.486..843P - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 486, 843-850 (2019/June-2)

A cold stellar stream in Pegasus.

PEROTTONI H.D., MARTIN C., NEWBERG H.J., ROCHA-PINTO H.J., DE ALMEIDA-FERNANDES F. and GOMES-JUNIOR A.R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the serendipitous discovery of a stellar stream in the constellation Pegasus in the south Galactic hemisphere. The stellar stream was detected using the SDSS Data Release 14 by means of a matched filter in the colour-magnitude diagram that is optimized for a stellar population that is 8 Gyr old with [Fe/H] = -0.46 dex, and located at heliocentric distance of 18 kpc. The candidate stream is faint (turn-off point at r0 ∼ 19.6), sparse and barely visible in SDSS photometry. It is also detected in the (shallower) Pan-STARRs data. The residual stellar density in the (u - g)0, (g - r)0 colour-colour diagram gives the same estimate for the age and [Fe/H] of this stellar population. The stream is located at a Galactic coordinates (l, b) = (79.4°, -24.6°) and extends over 9° (2.5 kpc), with a width of 112 pc. The narrow width suggests a globular cluster progenitor.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: halo - Galaxy: stellar content - Galaxy: structure

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