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SDSS RR Lyrae
Željko Ivezić
Robert Lupton
David Schlegel
Vernesa Smolčić
David Johnston
Jim Gunn
Jill Knapp
Michael Strauss
and hundreds more· · ·
University of Chicago,Fermilab,
Institute for Advanced Study,Japanese Participation Group,
Johns Hopkins University,Los Alamos National Laboratory,Max-Planck Institute (MPIA),Max-Planck Institute (MPA),New Mexico State University
University of PittsburghPrinceton University,
United States Naval Observatory,University of Washington,
University of Zagreb
Satellites and Tidal Tails, May 26-30, 2003, La Palma
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Summary
• There is mounting evidence for the existence of a tidal streamin the halo that is associated with the Sgr Dwarf galaxy
• The spatial and velocity distributions of ∼3,000 candidate RRLyrae stars discovered by SDSS provide strong confirmation for
the reality of this feature
• SDSS data provide significant new constraints for the modelsof Sgr Dwarf tidal stream, as well as for the overall halo structure
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The Comparison of Models for
Sgr Dwarf Tidal Stream; top:
Helmi & White (2000), mid-
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tom: Delgado-Martinez et al.
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The green dot: the Sun
Models differ and can be con-
trained using observations of
RR Lyrae stars (which are lu-
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How to find RR Lyrae stars us-
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data completeness
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• First ∼150 SDSS RRLyrae from commissioning
data: Sgr Dwarf “northern
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• Detection method: twoepochs and accurate colors
• confirmed by QUEST
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data completeness
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RR Lyrae stars have very specific colors!
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• All stars:1 in ∼ 104 is RR Lyraecompleteness is 100%
• Blue box:1 in ∼20 is RR Lyraecompleteness is 100%
• Red corner:1 in ∼2 is RR Lyraecompleteness is 25%
• Magenta box:Ivezic et al. (2000)
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Variability Studies with SDSS
• Imaging vs. Imaging Data
– Southern Survey: ∼ 200 deg2, up to ∼ 12 epochs
– Converging Strips: ∼ 30% of the area
– Strip Overlaps: ∼ 10% of the area
– Commissioning Data: ∼ 100 deg2, 2 epochs, 2 days apart
• Imaging vs. Spectrophotometric Data
• Imaging vs. Other Data (e.g. POSS)
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How good is SDSS photometry? Not only that true errors aresmall (0.02 mag), but the error estimates are very accurate!
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Variability-Based Selection
Criteria for SDSS RR Lyrae:
• Colors have to be consis-tent with “RR Lyrae” box
• Repeated ObservationsMust Indicate Variability:
1) Processing flags
!SATUR, !BLENDED,
!MOVING
2) r < 20.7 and σr < 0.3
3) Variation in g and r:
(∆g)2+(∆r)2 > 0.152,
at least 5σ significant
4) Correlated variation in
g and r:
∆g ∼ 1.4∆r
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• Blue dots: 1092 variability-selected RR Lyrae candidates
with |Dec| < 1.25
• Contours: Ibata et al. (2001)model
• Black dots: all stars withRR Lyrae colors and
multiple observations
• Green dots:variability-selected
RR Lyrae candidates
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CDM predictions by Bullock,
Kravtsov & Weinberg (2001)Observed Distribution
of SDSS RR Lyrae
Models predicts more clustering than seen in the data (outside
the Sgr Dwarf tidal stream): e.g. observe the 50–75 kpc ring.
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Sgr Dwarf clump is coherent
in velocity space!
Do the models correctly predict
the velocity distribution in the
tidal stream?
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Conclusions• SDSS is producing a large
and robust sample of distant
RR Lyrae stars
• Even with the increase inthe sample size by a factor of
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remains the most pronounced
feature
• Areas not associated withthe Sgr Dwarf tidal stream
seem to show less structure
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• The data is in qualitativeagreement with models for Sgr
Dwarf tidal stream, but there is
room for quantitative improve-
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