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Caption: Figure 10.
Density contrast of MW stellar halo in Mollweide projection in Galactic coordinates. Here selection effects have been corrected. The figure is made in four different bins of galactocentric distances 10 kpc < rGC < 20 kpc, 20 kpc < rGC < 30 kpc, 30 kpc < rGC < 50 kpc, and 50 kpc < rGC < 100 kpc (see the text on top of each panel). The density contrast is defined as the difference between observed density at different sky pointings and the mean observed density at a given rGC range, further divided by the mean density. The black pentagram in each panel marks the current location of the LMC. The HAC-S (yellow), HAC-N (red), Pisces (green), and VOD (blue) regions are marked by the corresponding colored solid lines. The definition of these regions can be found in Table 1.
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