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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 4.

Top to bottom panels: on-sky distribution, density, width, and proper motion profiles of the narrow and wide Jhelum components (orange and blue points, respectively). The narrow component has a constant width and density, while in the wide, spatially offset, component both width and density increase toward the leading end (more negative ϕ1). However, the two Jhelum components have proper motions that are consistent within uncertainties (shaded area). The best-fitting orbit in the standard Milky Way potential reproduces the sky and proper motion distribution of the narrow component (thin line).

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