Bibcode
López-Corredoira, M.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 369, Issue 4, pp. 1911-1915.
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2006
Citations
19
Refereed citations
17
Description
Bellazzini et al. claim that López-Corredoira et al. warp model
is totally unable to reproduce the Canis Major structure in the red
clump stars. However, slight variations in the azimuth of the
López-Corredoira et al. warp model, justified by the
uncertainties in the parameter as well as the local irregularities with
respect to the average model, derive a result much closer to the
observations of the overdensity south/north. The bump of red clump stars
with mK = 13-13.5 around l = 241°,b = -8.5° and the
depth of the Canis Major structure are also explainable in terms of the
warp with an appropriate extrapolation of constant height between
Galactocentric radii of 13 and 16 kpc, as observed roughly in the
southern warp, instead of a monotonically increasing height like the
northern warp; and the observed velocity distribution of stars cannot
exclude the warp possibility. A warp model is therefore still a possible
explanation of the Canis Major overdensity, and the hypothesis of the
existence of a dwarf galaxy is unnecessary, although still a possibility
too.