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A Dwarf Galaxy Debris Stream Associated with Palomar 1 and the Anticenter Stream

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-03-02 v1

Abstract

We report the discovery of a new stream (dubbed as Yangtze) detected in GaiaGaia Data Release 3. The stream is at a heliocentric distance of \sim 9.12 kpc and spans nearly 27deg\deg by 1.9deg\deg on sky. The colour-magnitude diagram of Yangtze indicates a stellar population of Age \sim 11 Gyr and [M/H] \sim -0.7 dex. It has a number density of about 5.5 stars degree2^{-2} along with a surface brightness of ΣG\Sigma_G \simeq 34.9 mag arcsec2^{-2}. The dynamics and metallicity estimate suggest that Yangtze may be closely related to Palomar 1 and the Anticenter stream.

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@article{arxiv.2302.05232,
  title  = {A Dwarf Galaxy Debris Stream Associated with Palomar 1 and the Anticenter Stream},
  author = {Yong Yang and Jing-Kun Zhao and Xian-Hao Ye and Gang Zhao and Ke-Feng Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05232},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJL. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2208.05176