Analysis of Halo Star Movement (IMAGE)

University of Groningen

Analysis of Halo Star Movement

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Left panel: different starstreams (coloured dots), the Milky Way disk (blue) and in black the rest of the halo stars, in which the horizontal cigar-shaped blob is visible. Right panel: same data, now seen form a 90 degree rotated angle.

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Koppelman et al.

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