Spatial distribution of all the spectroscopically confirmed members of ρ Ophiuchi as compiled from the literature and determined in this paper. The diagram shows the stellar members (black filled circles) and members at the substellar limit and brown dwarfs (grey filled circles), superposed on the contours of the COMPLETE extinction map (Ridge et al. 2006). The field of the WIRCam survey is shown and is used to define a spatially-limited sample.