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Multiple Components of the Jhelum Stellar Stream

  • Authors: Ana Bonaca, Charlie Conroy, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, and David W. Hogg

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 881 L37.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Top panel, left: Sky positions of likely Jhelum members in the stream coordinate system reveal for the first time a complex morphology in a cold stream. Member selection is based on the Gaia proper motions and DES photometry, and excludes nearby contaminants using Gaia parallaxes. Top panel, right: profile of likely Jhelum members between −5° < ϕ1 < 25° is asymmetric, with a narrow, dense component at ϕ2 > 0° and a more diffuse, wide component at ϕ2 < 0°. This morphology is intrinsic to the stellar stream, as similar signatures are absent from the full stellar density field (middle panel) and the dust map (bottom panel). As a guideline, the top two dashed lines bracket the narrow component, while the bottom two encompass the wide component.

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