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Pisces-Eridanus (Psc-Eri), a nearby ($d$ $\simeq$ 80-226 pc) stellar stream stretching across $\approx$120 degrees of the sky, was recently discovered with Gaia data. The stream was claimed to be $\approx$1 Gyr old, which would make it an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jason Lee Curtis , Marcel A. Agüeros , Eric E. Mamajek , Jason T. Wright , Jeffrey D. Cummings

The Ophiuchus stream is a short arc-like stellar feature of uncertain origin located $\sim 5$ kpc North of the Galactic centre. New proper motions from the second $Gaia$ data release reconcile the direction of motion of stream members with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 James M. M. Lane , Julio F. Navarro , Azadeh Fattahi , Kyle A. Oman , Jo Bovy

There are expected to be physical relationships between the globular clusters (GCs) and stellar substructures in the Milky Way, not all of which have yet been found. We search for such substructures from a combined halo sample of SDSS blue…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-05 Zhen Yuan , Jiang Chang , Timothy C. Beers , Yang Huang

The giant southern stream (GSS) is the most prominent tidal debris feature in M31's stellar halo. The GSS is composed of a relatively metal-rich, high surface-brightness "core" and a lower metallicity, lower surface brightness "envelope."…

We report the discovery of a giant, loop-like stellar structure around the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4013. This arcing feature extends 6 arcmin (~26 kpc in projected distance) northeast from the center and 3 arcmin (~=12 kpc) from the disk…

Using a shallow, two-color survey carried out with the Dark Energy Camera, we detect the southern, possibly trailing arm of the Orphan Stream. The stream is reliably detected to a declination of $-38^\circ$, bringing the total known length…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Carl J. Grillmair , Lauren Hetherington , Raymond G. Carlberg , Beth Willman

We show that there is a low metallicity tidal stream that runs along l=143 deg. in the South Galactic Cap, about 34 kpc from the Sun, discovered from SEGUE stellar velocities. Since the most concentrated detections are in the Cetus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-22 Heidi Jo Newberg , Brian Yanny , Benjamin A. Willett

Stellar streams are sensitive laboratories for understanding the small-scale structure in our Galaxy's gravitational field. Here, we analyze the morphology of the $300S$ stellar stream, which has an eccentric, retrograde orbit and thus…

We report the kinematic, orbital, and chemical properties of 12 stellar streams with no evident progenitors, using line-of-sight velocities and metallicities from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey ($S^5$), proper motions from…

Tidal stellar shells and streams are two of the most intriguing low-surface-brightness features within galaxies, consisting of stars accreted from satellite galaxies. A crucial ingredient in determining which type of feature will be formed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Johannes Stoiber , Lucas M. Valenzuela , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Klaus Dolag

We present 2-degree field spectroscopic observations of a sample of 96 A-type stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 (SDSS DR3). Our aim is to identify blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars in order to measure the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Clewley , Matt J. Jarvis

The detection of narrow channels of accretion toward protostellar disks, known as streamers, have increased in number in the last few years. However, it is unclear if streamers are a common feature around protostars that were previously…

ED-2 is a stellar stream identified as a compact group in integrals of motion space in a local sample of halo stars from the third Gaia data release. Here we investigate its nature and possible association with known halo substructures. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-18 E. Balbinot , A. Helmi , T. Callingham , T. Matsuno , E. Dodd , T. Ruiz-Lara

The Hercules stream is a group of co-moving stars in the Solar neighbourhood, which can potentially be explained as a signature of either the outer Lindblad resonance (OLR) of a fast Galactic bar or the corotation resonance of a slower bar.…

We present the first comprehensive spectroscopic study of the Andromeda galaxy's Eastern Extent. This ~4 degree long filamentary structure. located 70-90 kpc from the centre of M31, lies perpendicular to Andromeda's minor axis and the Giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Janet Preston , Michelle Collins , R. Michael Rich , Rodrigo Ibata , Nicolas F. Martin , Mark Fardal

We present results from neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the tip of the Magellanic Stream (MS), obtained with the Arecibo telescope as a part of the on-going survey by the Consortium for Galactic studies with the Arecibo L-band Feed…

We investigate the possibility that the recently discovered Hercules Milky Way satellite is in fact a stellar stream in formation, thereby explaining its very elongated shape with an axis ratio of 3 to 1. Under the assumption that Hercules…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicolas F. Martin , Shoko Jin

We identify a new, nearby (0.5 < d < 10 kpc) stream in data from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). As the majority of stars in the stream lie in the constellation of Aquarius we name it the Aquarius Stream. We identify 15 members of…

We present maps of the stellar streams detected in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) and Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) catalogs using the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We also report the spectroscopic follow-up of the brighter DR2 stream members…

Longitudinal density fluctuations observed in stellar streams can result from gravitational interactions with massive perturbers in the Milky Way, such as dark matter subhalos. Analysing these density variations provides a powerful probe of…