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We have designed a powerful new algorithm to detect stellar streams in an automated and systematic way. The algorithm, which we call the STREAMFINDER, is well suited for finding dynamically cold and thin stream structures that may lie along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo Ibata

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

We present the discovery of a large population of stellar streams that surround the inner Galaxy, found in the Gaia DR2 catalog using the new STREAMFINDER algorithm. Here we focus on the properties of eight new high-significance structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Rodrigo Ibata , Khyati Malhan , Nicolas Martin

We present maps of the stellar streams detected in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) and Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) catalogs using the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We also report the spectroscopic follow-up of the brighter DR2 stream members…

Stellar streams provide one of the most promising avenues for constraining the global mass distribution of the Milky Way and the nature of dark matter (DM). The stream stars' kinematic "track" enables inference of large-scale properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 Kiyan Tavangar , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

The Gaia mission has led to the discovery of over 100 stellar streams in the Milky Way, most of which likely originated from globular clusters (GCs). As the upcoming wide-field surveys can potentially continue to increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-12 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Colin Holm-Hansen

Streams of stars from captured dwarf galaxies and dissolved globular clusters are identifiable through the similarity of their orbital parameters, a fact that remains true long after the streams have dispersed spatially. We calculate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicholas W. Borsato , Sarah L. Martell , Jeffrey D. Simpson

Nearby stellar streams carry unique information on the dynamical evolution and disruption of stellar systems in the Galaxy, the mass distribution in the disk, and provide unique targets for planet formation and evolution studies. We revisit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-08 S. Ratzenböck , S. Meingast , J. Alves , T. Möller , I. Bomze

Stellar streams from globular clusters (GCs) offer constraints on the nature of dark matter and have been used to explore the dark matter halo structure and substructure of our Galaxy. Detection of GC streams in other galaxies would broaden…

We develop a new machine learning algorithm, Via Machinae, to identify cold stellar streams in data from the Gaia telescope. Via Machinae is based on ANODE, a general method that uses conditional density estimation and sideband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-30 David Shih , Matthew R. Buckley , Lina Necib , John Tamanas

We use the photometric metallicities provided by the panoramic Pristine survey to study the veracity and derive the metallicities of the numerous stellar streams found by the application of the STREAMFINDER algorithm to the Gaia EDR3 data.…

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

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 present an atlas and follow-up spectroscopic observations of 87 thin stream-like structures detected with the STREAMFINDER algorithm in Gaia DR3, of which 29 are new discoveries. Here we focus on using these streams to refine mass models…

The GD-1 stream is one of the longest and coldest stellar streams discovered to date, and one of the best objects for constraining the dark matter properties of the Milky Way. Using data from {\it Gaia} DR2 we study the proper motions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 T. J. L. de Boer , D. Erkal , M. Gieles

We present SkyCURTAINs, a data driven and model agnostic method to search for stellar streams in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the Gaia telescope. SkyCURTAINs is a weakly supervised machine learning algorithm that builds a background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-22 Debajyoti Sengupta , Stephen Mulligan , David Shih , John Andrew Raine , Tobias Golling

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

A method to search for tidal streams and to fit their orbits based on maximum likelihood is presented and applied to the Gaia data. Tests of the method are performed showing how a simulated stream produced by tidal stripping of a star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 C. G. Palau , J. Miralda-Escudé

With the photometric data from the SDSS survey, the spectroscopic data from the SDSS/SEGUE and the LAMOST surveys, and the astrometric data from the Gaia DR2, we have identified 71 highly-probable member stars of the GD-1 cold stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu , Bingqiu Chen , Huawei Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Maosheng Xiang , Chun Wang , Zhijian Tian

We present the first full six-dimensional panoramic portrait of the Sagittarius stream, obtained by searching for wide stellar streams in the Gaia DR2 dataset with the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We use the kinematic behavior of the sample to…

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