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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

We report the discovery of a cold stream near the southern Galactic pole (dubbed as SGP-S) detected in $Gaia$ Early Data Release 3. The stream is at a heliocentric distance of $\sim$ 9.5 kpc and spans nearly 58$^\circ$ by 0.6$^\circ$ on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-25 Yong Yang , Jing-Kun Zhao , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Xian-Hao Ye , Gang Zhao

We have the unique opportunity to observe and model nearby streams around the two large Local Group spirals Milky Way and M31 in great detail. However, the detection of streams around other external galaxies is required to verify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pohlen , D. Martinez-Delgado , S. Majewski , C. Palma , F. Prada , M. Balcells

Using deep photometric data from CFHT/Megacam, we study the morphology and density of the GD-1 stream, one of the longest and coldest stellar streams in the Milky Way. Our deep data recovers the lower main sequence of the stream with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 T. J. L. de Boer , V. Belokurov , S. E. Koposov , L. Ferrarese , D. Erkal , P. Cote , J. F. Navarro

The ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 has a low dark matter content and hosts a very unusual globular cluster (GC) population, with a median luminosity $\sim4$ times higher than in most galaxies and containing about 5~per~cent of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Benjamin W. Keller , Marta Reina-Campos

We have followed up two ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), detected adjacent to stellar streams, with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging and HI mapping with the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in order to investigate the possibility that they…

We have found the peculiar galaxy NGC922 to be a new drop-through ring galaxy using multi-wavelength (UV-radio) imaging and spectroscopic observations. Its `C'-shaped morphology and tidal plume indicate a recent strong interaction with its…

NGC 1052-DF2, an ultra diffuse galaxy (UDG), has been the subject of intense debate. Its alleged absence of dark matter, and the brightness and number excess of its globular clusters (GCs) at an initially assumed distance of 20Mpc,…

Stellar streams produced from dwarf galaxies provide direct evidence of the hierarchical formation of the Milky Way. Here, we present the first comprehensive study of the "LMS-1" stellar stream, that we detect by searching for wide streams…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Khyati Malhan , Zhen Yuan , Rodrigo Ibata , Anke Arentsen , Michele Bellazzini , Nicolas F. Martin

We investigate whether the recently discovered Phoenix stream may be part of a much longer structure that includes the previously discovered Hermus stream. Using a simple model of the Galaxy with a disk, bulge, and a spherical dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-06 Carl J. Grillmair , Raymond G. Carlberg

We report on a 60 degree-long stream of stars, extending from Ursa Major to Sextans, in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The stream is approximately 2 degrees wide and is clearly distinct from the northern tidal arm of the Sagittarius dwarf…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Grillmair

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

Tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their satellites are fundamental processes in a Universe with L-Cold Dark Matter cosmology, redistributing material into faint features that preserve records of past galactic interactions.…

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 present an extragalactic perspective of an extended stellar tidal stream wrapping around the edge-on, spiral galaxy NGC 5907. Our deep images reveal for the first time a large scale complex of arcing loops that is an excellent example of…

We present the first stellar stream discovered with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, around spiral galaxy M61 (NGC 4303) in Virgo First Look imaging. The stream is narrow, radially-oriented in projection, and ~50 kpc long. It has g-band…

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

The recently discovered, ring-like structure just outside the Galactic disk in Monoceros is detected and traced among 2MASS M giant stars. We have developed a method to recover the signature of this structure from the distance probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Steven R. Majewski , M. F. Skrutskie , Jeffrey D. Crane

Several long, dynamically cold stellar streams have been observed around the Milky Way Galaxy, presumably formed from the tidal disruption of globular clusters. In integrable potentials---where all orbits are regular---tidal debris…

We use Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 photometry and spectroscopy to study a tidal stream that extends over 50 degrees in the North Galactic Cap. From the analysis of the path of the stream and the colors and magnitudes of its…