Chemical Cartography of the Sagittarius Stream with Gaia

Understand

The stellar stream connected to the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy is the most massive tidal stream that has been mapped in the Galaxy, and is the dominant contributor to the outer stellar halo of the Milky Way.

• We present metallicity maps of the Sgr stream, using 34,240 red giant branch stars with inferred metallicities from Gaia BP/RP spectra.
• This sample is larger than previous samples of Sgr stream members with chemical abundances by an order of magnitude.
• We measure metallicity gradients with respect to Sgr stream coordinates $(\Lambda, B)$, and highlight the gradient in metallicity with respect to stream latitude coordinate $B$, which has not been observed before.