2007ApJ...668L.123M

This Letter reports on the Galactic stellar structures that appear in the foreground of our Canada-France-Hawaii-Telecopse/MegaCam survey of the halo of the Andromeda galaxy. We recover the main sequence and main-sequence turnoff of the Triangulum-Andromeda structure recently found by Majewski and collaborators at a heliocentric distance of ∼20 kpc. The survey also reveals another less populated main sequence at fainter magnitudes that could correspond to a more distant stellar structure at ∼28 kpc. Both structures are smoothly distributed over the ∼76 deg² covered by the survey, although the closer one shows an increase in density by a factor of ∼2 toward the northwest. The discovery of a stellar structure behind the Triangulum-Andromeda structure that itself appears behind the low-latitude stream that surrounds the Galactic disk gives further evidence that the inner halo of the Milky Way is of a spatially clumpy nature.