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We report the discovery of a giant stellar tidal stream in the halo of NGC 4631, a nearby edge-on spiral galaxy interacting with the spiral NGC 4656, in deep images taken with a 40-cm aperture robotic telescope. The stream has two…

The massive galaxies in the young universe, ten billion years ago, formed stars at surprising intensities. Although this is commonly attributed to violent mergers, the properties of many of these galaxies are incompatible with such events,…

We show that a string of HI clouds that form part of the high-velocity cloud complex known as GCN is a probable gaseous stream extending over more than 50 deg in the Galactic halo. The radial velocity gradient along the stream is used to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Shoko Jin

We investigate the possibility that the recently discovered Hercules Milky Way satellite is in fact a stellar stream in formation, thereby explaining its very elongated shape with an axis ratio of 3 to 1. Under the assumption that Hercules…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicolas F. Martin , Shoko Jin

In this work we study the striking case of a narrow blue stream around the NGC 7241 galaxy and its foreground dwarf companion. We want to figure out if the stream was generated by tidal interaction with NGC 7241 or it first interacted with…

We present results from a WIYN/OPTIC photometric and astrometric survey of the field of the open cluster NGC 188 ((l,b) = (122.8\arcdeg, 22.5\arcdeg)). We combine these results with the proper-motion and photometry catalog of Platais et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard , Imants Platais , William F. van Altena

We investigate the isolated, quiescent ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) DGSAT I and its globular cluster (GC) system using two orbits of Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging in the F606W and F814W filters. This is the first…

The Arcturus stream is an over-density of stars in velocity space and its origin has been much debated recently without any clear conclusion. Resolving the nature of the Arcturus stream can provide clues to the formation history of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Iryna Kushniruk , Thomas Bensby

The recently discovered C-19 stellar stream is a collection of kinematically associated metal-poor stars in the halo of the Milky Way lacking an obvious progenitor. The stream spans an arc of ~15 degrees in the sky, and orbit-fitting…

A subparsec-scale dense plasma torus around an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is unveiled. We report on very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations at 2.3, 8.4, and 15.4 GHz towards the active galaxy NGC 1052. The convex spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Kameno , S. Sawada-Satoh , M. Inoue , Z. -Q. Shen , K. Wajima

Recent observations have revealed streams of gas and stars in the halo of the Milky Way that are the debris from interactions between our Galaxy and some of its dwarf companion galaxies; the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy and the Magellanic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Rodrigo Ibata , Michael Irwin , Geraint Lewis , Annette Ferguson , Nial Tanvir

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

We show that there is a low metallicity tidal stream that runs along l=143 deg. in the South Galactic Cap, about 34 kpc from the Sun, discovered from SEGUE stellar velocities. Since the most concentrated detections are in the Cetus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-22 Heidi Jo Newberg , Brian Yanny , Benjamin A. Willett

Tidally dissolved globular clusters form thin stellar streams that preserve a historical record of their past evolution. We report a radial velocity dispersion of $2.3\pm0.3\,\textrm{km}\,\textrm{s}^{-1}$ in the GD-1 stellar stream using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Megan T. Gialluca , Rohan P. Naidu , Ana Bonaca

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

The Phoenix stellar stream has a low intrinsic dispersion in velocity and metallicity that implies the progenitor was probably a low mass globular cluster. In this work we use Magellan/MIKE high-dispersion spectroscopy of eight Phoenix…

Tidal stellar shells and streams are two of the most intriguing low-surface-brightness features within galaxies, consisting of stars accreted from satellite galaxies. A crucial ingredient in determining which type of feature will be formed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Johannes Stoiber , Lucas M. Valenzuela , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Klaus Dolag

We report the discovery of a $75\deg$ long stellar stream in Gaia DR2 catalog, found using the new STREAMFINDER algorithm. The structure is probably the remnant of a now fully disrupted globular cluster, lies $\approx 3.8 \, {\rm kpc}$ away…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Rodrigo A. Ibata , Khyati Malhan , Nicolas F. Martin , Else Starkenburg

Data from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed an unusual elliptical galaxy, NGC 4125, which has strong and extended submillimeter emission from cold dust but only very strict upper limits to its CO and HI emission. Depending on the…

The halo region of M31 exhibits a startling level of stellar inhomogeneities, the most prominent of which is the "giant southern stream". Our previous analysis indicates that this stream, as well as several other observed features, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark A. Fardal , Arif Babul , Puragra Guhathakurta , Karoline M. Gilbert , Cara Dodge