Bibcode
Martínez-Delgado, D.; Gómez-Flechoso, M. A.; Aparicio, A.
Bibliographical reference
Observed HR Diagrams and Stellar Evolution, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 274. Edited by Thibault Lejeune and João Fernandes. ISBN: 1-58381-116-8. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002., p.468
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2002
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Description
Standard cosmology predicts that dwarfs were the first galaxies to be
formed in the Universe and that many of them merge afterwards to form
bigger galaxies such as the Milky Way. This process would have left
behind traces such as tidal debris or tidal streams in the outer halo.
We report here the detection of two new tidal debris of the northern
stream of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, based in the analysis of wide
field, deep color- magnitude diagrams. These detections provide strong
observational evidence that the stripped debris of Sagittarius extends
up to 60 degrees from its center, suggesting that the stream of this
galaxy completely wraps the Milky Way in an almost polar orbit. Our
negative detections also suggest the stream is narrow, supporting a
nearly spherical Milky Way dark matter halo potential.