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We report the kinematic discovery of the Pisces Stellar Stream (PSS), at Galactic longitude of roughly l=135 degrees and longitude between -39 < b < -36 deg. We originally identified this halo substructure from velocities of red giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Charles Martin , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Heidi Jo Newberg , Carl Grillmair

We report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of a 63 degree-long tidal stream of stars, extending from Ursa Major to Cancer. The stream has no obvious association with the orbit of any known cluster or galaxy. The contrast of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carl J. Grillmair , Odysseas Dionatos

We present the first all-sky view of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy mapped by M giant star tracers detected in the complete Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The main body is fit with a King profile of 30 deg limiting radius, but with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven R. Majewski , M. F. Skrutskie , Martin D. Weinberg , James C. Ostheimer

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…

Observations of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr dSph) galaxy were carried out with the H.E.S.S. array of four imaging air Cherenkov telescopes in June 2006. A total of 11 hours of high quality data are available after data selection.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

Using proper motions from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR 3) and radial velocities from several surveys, we identify 60 candidate high-velocity stars with total velocity greater than 75\% escape velocity that probably origin from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Hefan Li , Cuihua Du , Jun Ma , Jianrong Shi , Heidi Jo Newberg , Yunsong Piao

In this study, we present the construction of a new proper motion catalog utilizing the photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging surveys, with a median time baseline…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Yun-Ao Xiao , Hu Zou , Xin Xu , Lu Feng , Wei-Jian Guo , Wen-Xiong Li , Shu-Fei Liu , Zhi-Xia Shen , Gaurav Singh , Ji-Peng Sui , Jia-Li Wang , Sui-Jian Xue

We use Gaia DR2 data to show that the globular cluster NGC5634 is physically associated with an arm of the Sagittarius Stream, the huge system of tidal tails created by the ongoing disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-29 M. Bellazzini , R. Ibata

We present a method for measuring the Sun's motion using the proper motions of Galactic halo star streams. The method relies on the fact that the motion of the stars perpendicular to a stream from a low-mass progenitor is close to zero when…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo A. Ibata

We have selelcted 556 Red Horizontal Branch (RHB) stars along the streams of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr) from SDSS DR7 spectroscopic data using a theoretical model. The metallicity and \alpha-elements distributions are investigated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 W. B. Shi , Y. Q. Chen , K. Carrell , G. Zhao

We have measured the absolute proper motion of the young globular cluster Pal 12 with respect to background galaxies, using plate material spanning a 40-year time baseline, and measuring stars down to a magnitude V~22. The measured absolute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. I. Dinescu , S. R. Majewski , T. M. Girard , K. M. Cudworth

We discuss a sample of over 3000 candidate RR Lyrae stars selected by various methods using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data for about 1000 deg^2 of sky. These stars probe the halo structure out to ~100 kpc from the Galactic center. Their…

With the photometric data from the SDSS survey, the spectroscopic data from the SDSS/SEGUE and the LAMOST surveys, and the astrometric data from the Gaia DR2, we have identified 71 highly-probable member stars of the GD-1 cold stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu , Bingqiu Chen , Huawei Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Maosheng Xiang , Chun Wang , Zhijian Tian

We analyze stellar proper motions in the COSMOS field to assess the presence of bulk motions. At bright magnitudes (G-band 18.5--20.76 AB), we use the proper motions of 1,010 stars in the Gaia DR2 catalog. At the faint end, we computed…

We use data from two CFHT-MegaCam photometric pencil-beam surveys in the g' and the r' bands to measure distances to the Sagittarius, the Palomar 5 and the Orphan stream. We show that, using a cross-correlation algorithm to detect the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-08 B. Pila-Díez , K. Kuijken , J. T. A. de Jong , H. Hoekstra , R. F. J. van der Burg

Using 25 years of data from uninterrupted monitoring of stellar orbits in the Galactic Center, we present an update of the main results from this unique data set: A measurement of mass of and distance to SgrA*. Our progress is not only due…

Aims. We present the first three-dimensional internal motions for individual stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Methods. By combining first-epoch $Hubble$ $Space$ $Telescope$ observations and second-epoch $Gaia$ Data Release 2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Davide Massari , Amina Helmi , Alessio Mucciarelli , Laura V. Sales , Lorenzo Spina , Eline Tolstoy

We assess the practicality of computing the distance to stellar streams in our Galaxy, using the method of Galactic parallax suggested by Eyre & Binney (2009). We find that the uncertainty in Galactic parallax is dependent upon the specific…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Andy Eyre

We use time-resolved spectra from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) to examine the distribution of radial velocity (RV) variations in 249 stars identified as members of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf…

We present the first detailed study of the behaviour of the stellar proper motion across the entire Galactic Anti-centre area visible in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. We use recalibrated SDSS astrometry in combination with positions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-01 T. J. L. de Boer , V. Belokurov , S. E. Koposov
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