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Measurements of the GD-1 star stream velocity distribution within $\pm$3 degrees of the centerline find a total line of sight velocity spread of 5-6 km/s in the well measured $\phi_1=$ [-30, 0] region (Valluri25). The velocity spread is far…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-27 Raymond G. Carlberg

Stellar streams from disrupted globular clusters are dynamically cold structures that are sensitive to perturbations from dark matter subhalos, allowing them in principle to trace the dark matter substructure in the Milky Way. We model,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Duncan K. Adams , Aditya Parikh , Oren Slone , Rouven Essig , Manoj Kaplinghat , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

One of the most intriguing properties of the GD-1 stellar stream is the existence of three gaps. If these gaps were formed by close encounters with dark matter subhalos, the GD-1 stream opens an exciting window through which we can see the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-10 Yuka Doke , Kohei Hattori

We present evidence for a new Milky Way stellar tidal stream in the direction of the Andromeda and Triangulum (M31 and M33) galaxies. Using a matched-filter technique, we search the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8 by creating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Ana Bonaca , Marla Geha , Nitya Kallivayalil

Stellar streams are a promising way to probe the gravitational effects of low-mass dark matter (DM) subhalos. In recent years, there has been a remarkable explosion in the number of stellar streams detected in the Milky Way, and hundreds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Junyang Lu , Tongyan Lin , Mukul Sholapurkar , Ana Bonaca

The GD-1 stellar stream exhibits spur and gap structures that may result from a close encounter with a dense substructure. When interpreted as a dark matter subhalo, the perturber is denser than predicted in the standard cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Xingyu Zhang , Hai-Bo Yu , Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler

We use velocity and metallicity information from SDSS and SEGUE stellar spectroscopy to fit an orbit to the narrow $63^\circ$ stellar stream of Grillmair and Dionatos. The stars in the stream have a retrograde orbit with eccentricity $e =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-15 Benjamin A. Willett , Heidi Jo Newberg , Haotong Zhang , Brian Yanny , Timothy C. Beers

Dynamically cold stellar streams are the relics left over from globular cluster dissolution. These relics offer a unique insight into a now fully disrupted population of ancient clusters in our Galaxy. Using a combination of Gaia eDR3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-18 Eduardo Balbinot , Ivan Cabrera-Ziri , Carmela Lardo

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

Tidally disrupted globular cluster streams are usually observed, and therefore perceived, as narrow, linear and one-dimensional structures in the 6D phase-space. Here we show that the GD-1 stellar stream ($\approx$ 30 pc wide), which is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-23 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo A. Ibata , Raymond G. Carlberg , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese

We constrain the shape of the Milky Way's halo by dynamical modeling of the observed phase-space tracks of the Pal 5 and GD-1 tidal streams. We find that the only information about the potential gleaned from the tracks of these streams are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-10 Jo Bovy , Anita Bahmanyar , Tobias K. Fritz , Nitya Kallivayalil

We present the results of fitting a flexible stellar stream density model to a collection of thirteen streams around the Milky Way, using photometric data from DES, DECaLS, and Pan-STARRS. We construct density maps for each stream and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Jeffrey M. Patrick , Sergey E. Koposov , Matthew G. Walker

We present a panoramic map of the entire Milky Way halo north of dec~-30 degrees (~30,000 deg^2), constructed by applying the matched-filter technique to the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi Survey dataset. Using single-epoch photometry reaching to g~22, we…

We perform a large suite of direct N-body simulations aimed at revealing the location of the progenitor, or its remnant, of the GD-1 stream. Data from \gaia\ DR2 reveals the GD-1 stream extends over $\approx 100^\circ$, allowing us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Jeremy J. Webb , Jo Bovy

Stellar streams from disrupted globular clusters are excellent probes of dark matter (DM) subhalos. Observed Milky Way streams display a remarkable diversity of features: spurs, gaps, kinks, cocoons, and density variations, many attributed…

An all high-latitude sky survey for cool carbon giant stars in the Galactic halo has revealed 75 such stars, of which the majority are new detections. Of these, more than half are clustered on a Great Circle on the sky which intersects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rodrigo Ibata , Geraint F. Lewis , Michael Irwin , Edward Totten , Thomas Quinn

We present a model for producing tidal streams from disrupting progenitors in arbitrary potentials, utilizing the idea that the majority of stars escape from the progenitor's two Lagrange points. The method involves releasing test particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Bowden , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

Stellar streams are sensitive probes of the Milky Way's gravitational potential. The mean track of a stream constrains global properties of the potential, while its fine-grained surface density constrains galactic substructure. A precise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-29 Nathaniel Starkman , Jacob Nibauer , Jo Bovy , Jeremy J. Webb , Kiyan Tavangar , Adrian Price-Whelan , Ana Bonaca