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We carried out a spectroscopic follow-up program of the four new stellar stream candidates detected by Belokurov & Koposov (2016) in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using FORS2 (VLT). The medium-resolution spectra were…

Recent years have seen the discovery of an ever growing number of stellar debris streams and clouds. These structures are typically detected as extended and often curvilinear overdensities of metal-poor stars that stand out from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-06 Carl J. Grillmair , Jeffrey L. Carlin

We report the discovery of 15 stars in the H3 survey that lie, in projection, near the tip of the trailing gaseous Magellanic Stream (MS). The stars have Galactocentric velocities $< -155$ km s$^{-1}$, Galactocentric distances of $\approx…

The Magellanic Stream (MS) - an enormous ribbon of gas spanning $140^\circ$ of the southern sky trailing the Magellanic Clouds - has been exquisitely mapped in the five decades since its discovery. However, despite concerted efforts, no…

The dominant gaseous structure in the Galactic halo is the Magellanic Stream, an extended network of neutral and ionized filaments surrounding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC), the two most massive satellite galaxies of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-10 Scott Lucchini , Elena D'Onghia , Andrew J Fox , Chad Bustard , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ellen Zweibel

The Magellanic Stream is a 100\deg x 10\deg filament of gas which lies within the Galactic halo and contains ~ 2 x 10^8 \Msun of neutral hydrogen. We present data from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) in the first complete survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. E. Putman , L. Staveley-Smith , K. C. Freeman , B. K. Gibson , D. G. Barnes

We report the discovery of a substantial stellar overdensity in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), found using public imaging from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey. The structure appears to emanate from the edge of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Dougal Mackey , Sergey E. Koposov , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov , Gary S. Da Costa , Facundo A. Gómez

Stellar streams are excellent probes of the underlying gravitational potential in which they evolve. In this work, we fit dynamical models to five streams in the Southern Galactic hemisphere, combining observations from the Southern Stellar…

We report the discovery of diffuse stellar substructure in the Milky Way's outer halo toward Bo\"otes, unveiled by deep imaging data of the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam. This substructure is detected as an excess of faint main-sequence stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Yoshihisa Suzuki , Masashi Chiba , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

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 present a study of the discrete clouds and filaments in the Magellanic Stream using a new high-resolution survey of neutral hydrogen (\HI) conducted with H75 array of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, complemented by single-dish…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 B. -Q. For , L. Staveley-Smith , D. Matthews , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

We perform a search for stellar streams around the Milky Way using the first three years of multi-band optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We use DES data covering $\sim 5000$ sq. deg. to a depth of $g > 23.5$ with a…

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a nearby laboratory for studying the fate of cool gas streams injected into a gaseous galactic halo. We investigate properties of the boundary layer between the cool MS gas and the hot Milky Way halo with 21 cm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Lou Nigra , Snezana Stanimirovic , John S. Gallagher , Kenneth Wood , David Nidever , Steven Majewski

We establish the connection between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and the dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) by building a dynamical model of the MC satellite populations, based on an extensive suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Prashin Jethwa , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov

The Magellanic Clouds are a local laboratory for understanding the evolution and properties of dwarf irregular galaxies. To reveal the extended structure and interaction history of the Magellanic Clouds we have undertaken a large-scale…

We have mapped two regions at the northern tip of the Magellanic Stream in neutral hydrogen 21-cm emission using the Arecibo telescope. The new data are used to study the morphology and properties of the Stream far away from the Magellanic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Stanimirovic , J. M. Dickey , M. Krco , A. Brooks

We use 666 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the 2Qz redshift survey to map the Galactic halo in four dimensions (position, distance and velocity). We find that the halo extends to at least 100 kpc in Galactocentric distance, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Roberto De Propris , Craig D. Harrison , Peter J. Mares , CTIO , Cornell University

In order to reconstruct the global SEDs of the Magellanic Clouds over eight decades in spectral range, we combined literature flux densities representing the entire LMC and SMC respectively, and complemented these with maps extracted from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. P. Israel , W. F. Wall , D. Raban , W. T. Reach , C. Bot , J. B. R. Oonk , N. Ysard , J. P. Bernard

A pole-count analysis of the infrared 2MASS survey is presented, in order to identify faint stream-like structures within the halo of the Milky Way. Selecting stars with colours consistent with M-giant stars, we find a strong over-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. A. Ibata , G. F. Lewis , M. J. Irwin , L. Cambresy
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