Tidal Debris of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal

This webpage is intended to serve as a companion resource to the papers recently presented by Majewski, Law, and collaborators:

A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy series:
• Paper I: Morphology of the Sgr Core and Tidal Arms (Majewski et al. 2003 [M03], ApJ, 599, 1082)
• Paper II: Swope Telescope Spectroscopy of M Giant Stars in the Dynamically Cold Sagittarius Tidal Stream (Majewski et al. 2004, ApJ, 128, 245)
• Paper III: Constraints on the Flattening of the Galactic Halo (Johnston, Law, & Majewski 2005 [JLM05], ApJ, 619, 800)
• Paper IV: Modeling the Sagittarius Tidal Tails (Law, Johnston, & Majewski 2005 [LJM05], ApJ, 619, 807)
• Paper V: Variation of the Metallicity Distribution Function along the Sagittarius Stream (Chou et al. 2007, ApJ, 670, 346)
• Paper VI: s-Process and Titanium Abundance Variations Along the Sagittarius Stream (Chou et al. 2010, ApJ, 708, 1290)

Other associated papers:
• Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream (Law, Majewski, & Johnston 2009 [LMJ09], ApJL, 703, 67)
• The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: a Model for Evolution in a Triaxial Milky Way Halo (Law & Majewski 2010a [LM10a], ApJ, 714, 229)
• Assessing the Milky Way Satellites Associated with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Law & Majewski 2010b [LM10b], ApJ, 718, 1128)
• The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters XI: The Three-Dimensional Orientation of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and its Globular Clusters (Siegel, Majewski, Law, et al. 2011, astro-ph XX)

The following resources may be of interest to those who are interested in studying the Sgr dwarf and its tidal streams.

• Sep. 24, 2003 press release on Paper I
• Jan 6, 2010 press release on the triaxial Milky Way halo

• A description of the Sgr longitudinal coordinate system and general stream orientation.
• C++ code to convert from Galactic coordinates into the Sgr coordinate system.

• Table of M-giant radial velocity data in the leading and trailing arms.
• Full spatial data for the best fit Sgr model in a triaxial Galactic potential (LM10).
• Spatial data for the (outdated) Sgr models of LJM05

• 3D movie of the best fit Sgr model.
• Stereoscopic view of Sgr and its nearby globular clusters.