The Milky Way Tomography with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam. I. Halo substructures

Abstract

We analyze the photometric data in the Wide layer of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) over $\sim 1,200$ deg${}^2$ to uncover new halo substructures beyond the distance, $D_{\odot }\sim$ 30 kpc, from the Sun. For this purpose, we develop an isochrone filter for an old, metal-poor stellar system to extract the faint main-sequence stars at a range of distances. With this method, we detect, not only the previously discovered substructures such as the Orphan Stream, but also the new overdensity toward Boötes at about $D_{\odot }\sim$ 60 kpc and the new stream-like feature toward Pisces at around $D_{\odot }\sim$ 60 kpc. It has been suggested that a small-scale overdensity exists in this direction of Pisces (the so-called Pisces Overdensity), but our results show that the overdensity is widely spread with a tidally elongated feature. Combining our results with the ongoing Hyper Suprime-Cam narrow-band survey and the near-future spectroscopic survey with Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) will allow us to place strong constraints on the origin of these halo substructures.

16 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in PASJ