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We present the first detailed analysis of the East Cloud, a highly disrupted diffuse stellar substructure in the outer halo of M31. The core of the substructure lies at a projected distance of $\sim100$ kpc from the centre of M31 in the…

The GD-1 stream is one of the longest and coldest stellar streams discovered to date, and one of the best objects for constraining the dark matter properties of the Milky Way. Using data from {\it Gaia} DR2 we study the proper motions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 T. J. L. de Boer , D. Erkal , M. Gieles

Stars aligned in thin stream-like features (feathers), with widths of $\delta\sim1-10^{\circ}$ and lengths as large as $\Delta l\sim180^{\circ}$, have been observed towards the Anticenter of our Galaxy and their properties mapped in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Chervin F. P. Laporte , Kathryn V. Johnston , Anastasios Tzanidakis

A map of 100 degrees on a side extracted from Gaia DR2 and centred on Alpha Persei reveals two distinct structures | the Alpha Persei star cluster and a conspicuous stellar stream, as widely documented in recent literature. In this work we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Victoria V. Nikiforova , Maxim V. Kulesh , Anton F. Seleznev , Giovanni Carraro

We construct test-particle orbits and simple N-body models that match the properties of the giant stellar stream observed to the south of M31, using the model of M31's potential derived in the companion paper by Geehan et al. (2006). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Fardal , A. Babul , J. J. Geehan , P. Guhathakurta

We report the discovery of two well-defined tidal tails emerging from the Hyades star cluster. The tails were detected in Gaia DR2 data by selecting cluster members in the three-dimensional galactocentric cylindrical velocity space. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Stefan Meingast , João Alves

Providing a detailed picture of the Sagittarius (Sgr) stream offers important constraints on the build-up of the Galactic halo as well as its gravitational potential at large radii. While several attempts have been made to model the…

Thanks to the precise astrometric measurements of proper motions by the Gaia mission, a new tidal stellar stream has been discovered in the northern hemisphere. The distribution of star count shows that the stream is approximately $80$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Changqing Luo , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yujiao Yang

We present deep $g,i$-band DECam stellar photometry of the Hercules Milky Way satellite galaxy, and its surrounding field, out to a radial distance of 5.4 times the tidal radius. We have identified nine extended stellar substructures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 T. A. Roderick , H. Jerjen , A. D. Mackey , G. S. Da Costa

HESS J1825-137 is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) whose TeV emission extends across ~1 deg. Its large asymmetric shape indicates that its progenitor supernova interacted with a molecular cloud located in the north of the PWN as detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-04 F. Voisin , G. Rowell , M. G. Burton , A. Walsh , Y. Fukui , F. Aharonian

Flat rotation curves v(r) are naturally explained by elongated (prolate) Dark Matter (DM) distributions, and we have provided competitive fits to the SPARC database. To further probe the geometry of the halo one needs out-of-plane…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-26 Adriana Bariego-Quintana , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

I report the discovery of a stellar stream (Sutlej) using Gaia DR3 proper motions and XP metallicities located ~15 degrees north of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The stream is composed of two parallel linear components ("branches")…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-11 David L. Nidever

Within a 400~pc sphere around the Sun, we search for members of the Pisces-Eridanus (Psc-Eri) stellar stream in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) data set. We compare basic astrophysical characteristics of the stream with those of the Pleiades.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Siegfried Röser , Elena Schilbach

We perform a detailed photometric and astrometric analysis of stars in the Jet stream using data from the first data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE) DR1 and \emph{Gaia} EDR3. We discover that the stream extends…

The wide-field CCD camera at the CFH telescope was used to survey the giant stellar stream in the Andromeda galaxy, resolving stars down the red giant branch in M31 to I ~ 25, a magnitude deeper than our previous INT survey of this galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. W. McConnachie , M. J. Irwin , R. A. Ibata , A. M. N. Ferguson , G. F. Lewis , N. Tanvir

We present deep optical observations of the stellar halo of NGC 300, an LMC-mass galaxy, acquired with the DEEP sub-component of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) using the 4 m Blanco Telescope. Our resolved star analysis…

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a large tail of neutral and ionized gas originating from tidal and hydrodynamical interactions between the Magellanic Clouds as they orbit the Milky Way (MW). It carries a significant gas reservoir that could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Sapna Mishra , Andrew J. Fox , J. V. Smoker , Scott Lucchini , Elena D'Onghia

Stellar streams in galaxy halos are the natural consequence of a history of merging and accretion. We present evidence for a blue tidal stream of young stars in the nearest giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 5128 (Centaurus A). Using optical UBVR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric W. Peng , Holland C. Ford , Kenneth C. Freeman , Richard L. White

Stellar halo substructures were identified using statistical photometric parallax of blue main sequence turnoff stars from fourteen Sloan Digital Sky Survey stripes in the north Galactic cap. Four structures are consistent with previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Jake Weiss , Heidi Jo Newberg , Travis Desell

We present the results of a wide-field camera survey of the stars in the Monoceros Ring, thought to be an additional structure in the Milky Way of unknown origin. Lying roughly in the plane of the Milky Way, this may represent a unique…