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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

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

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

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

We analyzed the velocity space of the thin and thick-disk Gaia white dwarf population within 100 pc looking for signatures of the Hercules stellar stream. We aimed to identify those objects belonging to the Hercules stream and, by taking…

We report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of a 63 degree-long tidal stream of stars, extending from Ursa Major to Cancer. The stream has no obvious association with the orbit of any known cluster or galaxy. The contrast of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carl J. Grillmair , Odysseas Dionatos

We report the discovery of a stellar stream in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1A1) data. The discovery was made through simple color-magnitude filters and visual inspection of the Y1A1 data. We refer to this new object as the Phoenix…

We report the serendipitous discovery of a stellar stream in the constellation Pegasus in the south Galactic hemisphere. The stellar stream was detected using the SDSS Data Release 14 by means of a matched filter in the color--magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 H. D. Perottoni , C. Martin , H. J. Newberg , H. J. Rocha-Pinto , F. de Almeida-Fernandes , A. R. Gomes-Junior

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

Omega Centauri is the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way, and possesses many peculiar properties. In particular, the cluster contains distinct multiple stellar populations, with a large spread in metallicity and different…

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

Within a 400~pc sphere around the Sun, we search for members of the Pisces-Eridanus (Psc-Eri) stellar stream in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) data set. We compare basic astrophysical characteristics of the stream with those of the Pleiades.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Siegfried Röser , Elena Schilbach

The central regions of the globular cluster Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) have been extensively studied, but its outer regions and tidal structure have been less so. Gaia's astrometry uncovered substantial tidal substructure associated with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 P. B. Kuzma , M. N. Ishigaki

We detect a tidal stream generated by the globular cluster NGC 3201 extending over ~140 degrees on the sky, using the Gaia DR2 data, with the maximum likelihood method we presented previously to study the M68 tidal stream. Most of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-13 C. G. Palau , J. Miralda-Escudé

We present the results of the hierarchical clustering analysis of the Gaia DR2 data to search for clusters, co-moving groups, and other stellar structures. The current paper builds on the sample from the previous work, extending it in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Marina Kounkel , Kevin Covey , Keivan G. Stassun

We reconsider the case for the association of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph), using Gaia DR2 data. We use RR Lyrae to trace the stream in 6D and we select clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 M. Bellazzini , R. Ibata , K. Malhan , N. Martin , B. Famaey , G. Thomas

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

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

Using photometry and proper motions from Gaia Data Release 2, we detect a 50 degree-long stream of about 70 stars extending westward from the halo globular cluster M5. Based on the similarities in distance, proper motions, inferred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Carl J. Grillmair

Using high-resolution spectra of nearby F and G dwarf stars, we have investigated the detailed abundance and age structure of the Hercules stream. We find that the stars in the stream have a wide range of stellar ages, metallicities, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Bensby , M. S. Oey , S. Feltzing , B. Gustafsson

Stars aligned in thin stream-like features (feathers), with widths of $\delta\sim1-10^{\circ}$ and lengths as large as $\Delta l\sim180^{\circ}$, have been observed towards the Anticenter of our Galaxy and their properties mapped in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Chervin F. P. Laporte , Kathryn V. Johnston , Anastasios Tzanidakis
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