Legacy Survey BHB stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Amarante J.A.S.
  2. Koposov S.E.
  3. Laporte C.F.P.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We used Legacy Survey photometric data to probe the stellar halo in multiple directions of the sky using a probabilistic methodology to identify Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars. The measured average radial density profile follows a double power law in the range 5<r_gc_/kpc<120, with a density break at r_gc_=~20kpc. This description, however, falls short, depending on the chosen line-of-sight, with some regions showing no signature of a break in the profile and a wide range of density slopes, e.g. outer slope -5.5<~{alpha}_out_<~-4, pointing towards a highly anisotropic stellar halo. This explains in part the wide range of density profiles reported in the literature owing to different tracers and sky coverage. Using our detailed 3-D stellar halo density map, we quantify the shape of the Pisces overdensity associated with the transient wake response of the Galaxy's (dark) halo to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Measured in the LMC's coordinate system, Pisces stands above the background, is 60 degrees long and 25 degrees wide and aligned with the LMC's orbit. This would correspond to a wake width of ~32kpc at ~70kpc. We do not find a statistically significant signature of the collective response in density as previously reported in the literature measured with K giant stars, despite our larger numbers. We release the catalogue constructed in this study with 95446 possible BHB stars and their BHB probability.

Keywords
  1. horizontal-branch-stars
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2024A&A...690A.166A
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History

2024-10-08T10:57:55Z
Resource record created
2024-10-08T09:58:43Z
Updated
2024-10-08T10:57:55Z
Created

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