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We present a stellar stream found in images of the nearby, nearly face-on, late-type galaxy, NGC 3938 obtained for the LBT Imaging of Galactic Halos and Tidal Structures (LIGHTS) survey that is thin, has very low mean surface brightness…

We present a panoramic map of the stellar streams of the Milky Way based upon astrometric and photometric measurements from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. In this first contribution, we concentrate on the halo at heliocentric distances beyond 5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo A. Ibata , Nicolas F. Martin

We present an analysis of the structure, kinematics and orbit of a newly found stellar stream emanating from the globular cluster M92 (NGC 6341). This stream was discovered in an improved matched-filter map of the outer Galaxy, based on a…

This paper aims to retrieve the ghost streams under the pre-assumption that all the globular clusters in our Galaxy were formed in the very early merge events. The results are based on two speculations: that the specific energy and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Shuang Gao , Bi-Wei Jiang , Yong-Heng Zhao

A candidate diffuse stellar substructure was previously reported in the halo of the nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 4449 by Karachentsev et al. We map and analyze this feature using a unique combination of deep integrated-light images…

We report the discovery of a large, dynamically cold, coeval stellar stream that is currently traversing the immediate solar neighborhood at a distance of only 100 pc. The structure was identified in a wavelet decomposition of the 3D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Stefan Meingast , João Alves , Verena Fürnkranz

We report on the discovery in the Gaia DR3 astrometric and spectroscopic catalog of a new polar stream that is found as an over-density in action space. This structure is unique as it has an extremely large apocenter distance, reaching…

The Orphan Stream is one of the most prominent tidal streams in the Galactic halo. Using data on red giants, RR Lyrae, and horizontal branch stars from Gaia and other surveys, we determine the proper motion of the Orphan Stream over a path…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Mark A. Fardal , Roeland P. van der Marel , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Andres del Pino Molina

We use N-body simulations to explore the origin and a plausible orbit for the Orphan Stream, one of the faintest substructures discovered so far in the outer halo of our Galaxy. We are able to reproduce its position, velocity and distance…

We report deep, single-dish 21 cm observations of NGC 1052-DF2, taken with the Green Bank Telescope. NGC 1052-DF2, proposed to be lacking in dark matter, is currently classified as an ultra-diffuse galaxy in the NGC 1052 group. We do not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Amy Sardone , D. J. Pisano , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Joshua L. Mascoop , Nihan Pol

Stellar streams form through the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies or globular clusters orbiting a host galaxy. Globular cluster streams are exciting since they are thin (dynamically cold) and, therefore sensitive to perturbations from…

The recent observation of the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 shows a galaxy may lack dark matter. Usually dark matter is much more abundant than stellar in galaxy environment. This dark matter to baryon mass ratio is generally larger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Ran Huo

Recent observations have uncovered a remarkably flat and extremely diffuse stellar distribution within the almost dark dwarf galaxy Nube, posing a challenge to the standard cold dark matter scenario. In this study, we employ numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Yu-Ming Yang , Zhao-Chen Zhang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

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 the discovery of diffuse far-infrared and far-ultraviolet emission projected near the interacting pair NGC4435/4438, in the Virgo cluster. This feature spatially coincides with a well known low surface-brightness optical plume,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Cortese , G. J. Bendo , K. G. Isaak , J. I. Davies , B. R. Kent

We present a spectroscopic survey of the giant stellar stream found in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy. Taken with the DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph on the Keck2 telescope, these data display a narrow velocity dispersion of 11+/-3 km/s,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ibata , S. Chapman , A. M. N. Ferguson , M. Irwin , G. Lewis , A. McConnachie

We study the dynamics of faint stellar substructures around the Umbrella Galaxy, NGC 4651, which hosts a dramatic system of streams and shells formed through the tidal disruption of a nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy. We elucidate the…

The longest recognized stellar stream in the Milky Way Galaxy has an expanse of over more than half the north sky. There was a physical disturbance within the stream, 500 million years ago, which could have been the scar of a dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-29 Carissma McGee

We present an analysis of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spectrum of HD141569A, a transitional object known to possess a circumstellar disk. We observe two components of gas at widely different temperatures along the line…

We present surface photometry of a giant, low surface brightness stellar arc in the halo of the nearby spiral galaxy M63 (NGC 5055) that is consistent with being a part of a stellar stream resulting from the disruption of a dwarf satellite…