The Dog on the Ship: The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy as an Outlying Part of the Argo Star System
The Dog on the Ship: The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy as an Outlying Part of the Argo Star System
Overdensities in the distribution of low-latitude, 2MASS giant stars are revealed by systematically peeling away from sky maps the bulk of the giant stars conforming to "isotropic" density laws generally accounting for known Milky Way components. This procedure, combined with a higher resolution treatment of the sky density of both …