Extended Data Fig. 3: Maps of unsmoothed star counts. | Nature

Extended Data Fig. 3: Maps of unsmoothed star counts.

From: All-sky dynamical response of the Galactic halo to the Large Magellanic Cloud

Extended Data Fig. 3

Mollweide projection maps of the observed sample of giants with pixels of size 13.4 square degrees. a, Map with no masking of known structure, either in sky coordinates or proper motions. The two main features identified here, the transient wake and the collective response, are still clearly visible even in this unfiltered map. The LMC and the SMC appear in the lower right as a merged region of high density. Other features include the stellar disk + bulge in the centre, and the Sagittarius Stream both in the north-centre and lower left and right. b, Map showing the filtered catalogue used in Fig. 1a.

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