A Magellanic origin for the Virgo sub-structure

The Milky Way halo has been mapped out in recent work using a sample of RR Lyrae stars drawn from a cross-match of Gaia with 2MASS. We investigate the significant residual in this map which we constrain to lie at Galactocentric radii 12 < R < 27 kpc and extend over 2600 deg2 of the sky...

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Glavni autori: Boubert, D, Belokurov, V, Erkal, D, Iorio, G
Format: Journal article
Jezik:English
Izdano: Oxford University Press 2018