The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings

@article{Belokurov2006TheFO,  title={The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings},  author={Vasily A Belokurov and Db B. Zucker and N. Wyn Evans and Gerard Gilmore and Simon Vidrih and Daniel M. Bramich and Heidi Jo Newberg and Rosemary F. G. Wyse and Michael J. Irwin and Michael Fellhauer and Paul C. Hewett and N. A. Walton and Mark I. Wilkinson and N. Cole and Brian Yanny and Constance M. Rockosi and Timothy C. Beers and E. F. Bell and J. Brinkmann and Željko Ivesi{\'c} and R. Lupton Cambridge and Rpi and Jhu and Fnal and Lick and Ucsd and Michigan State University and Mpia and Apache Point and Washington and Princeton},  journal={The Astrophysical Journal Letters},  year={2006},  volume={642},  pages={L137 - L140},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1774643}}
We use Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) u, g, r, i, z photometry to study Milky Way halo substructure in the area around the north Galactic cap. A simple color cut (g - r < 0.4) reveals the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy, as well as a number of other stellar structures in the field. Two branches (A and B) of the Sagittarius stream are clearly visible in an RGB composite image created from three magnitude slices, and there is also evidence for a still… 

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