Apocenter Pile-up: Origin of the Stellar Halo Density Break
Authors: Alis J. Deason, Vasily Belokurov, Sergey E. Koposov, and Lachlan Lancaster
2018 The Astrophysical Journal Letters862L1.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 2.
Spatial distribution of the main sequence (red) and BHB (black) stars in cylindrical (R, z) coordinates. Here, the Sun is located at (R, z) = (8.3, 0) kpc.