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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…

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We present chemodynamical links between the present-day Milky Way halo field star population and Galactic globular clusters (GCs) using a dataset that combines information from the $\rm{\it Gaia}$ space mission and the Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Michael Hanke , Andreas Koch , Zdenek Prudil , Eva K. Grebel , Ulrich Bastian

The hierarchical model of galaxy formation predicts that the Milky Way halo is populated by tidal debris of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters. Due to long dynamical times, debris from the lowest mass objects remains coherent as thin and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Ana Bonaca , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

The advent of Gaia's 2nd data release in combination with large spectroscopic surveys are revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to these and the knowledge accumulated thus far, a more mature picture of the evolution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-18 Amina Helmi

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 halo of the Milky Way has long been hypothesized to harbour significant amounts of merger debris. This view has been supported over more than a decade by wide-field photometric surveys which have revealed the outer halo to be lumpy. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi , Davide Massari , Sebastian Roelenga , Ulrich Bastian

We present the results of a detailed abundance analysis of one of the confirmed building blocks of the Milky Way stellar halo, a kinematically-coherent metal-poor stellar stream. We have obtained high resolution and high S/N spectra of 12…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Ian U. Roederer , Christopher Sneden , Ian B. Thompson , George W. Preston , Stephen A. Shectman

The halo of the Milky Way galaxy hosts multiple dynamically coherent substructures known as stellar streams that are remnants of tidally disrupted systems such as globular clusters (GCs) and dwarf galaxies (DGs). A particular case is that…

The origins of most stellar streams in the Milky Way are unknown. With improved proper motions provided by Gaia EDR3, we show that the orbits of 23 Galactic stellar streams are highly clustered in orbital phase space. Based on their…

NGC1851 is surrounded by a stellar component that extends more than ten times beyond the tidal radius. Although the nature of this stellar structure is not known, it has been suggested to be a sparse halo of stars or associated with a…

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

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

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

In simple models of the Milky Way, tidally disrupting satellites produce long and thin---nearly one-dimensional---stellar streams. Using astrometric data from the Gaia second data release and photometry from the Dark Energy Survey, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Ana Bonaca , Charlie Conroy , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , David W. Hogg

Using kinematics from Gaia and the large elemental abundance space of the second data release of the GALAH survey, we identify two new members of the Fimbulthul stellar stream, and chemically tag them to massive, multi-metallic globular…

Detailed studies of stellar populations in the halos of the Milky Way and the Andromeda (M 31) galaxies have shown increasing numbers of tidal streams and dwarf galaxies, attesting to a complicated and on-going process of hierarchical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Andreas Koch , Charles W. Danforth , R. Michael Rich , Rodrigo Ibata , Brian A. Keeney

Tidally-disrupted globular clusters are transformed into thin, dynamically-cold streams of stars that are extremely valuable tracers of the large- and small-scale distribution of mass in the Galaxy. Using data from the Gaia second data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Ana Bonaca

The Milky Way halo was predominantly formed by the merging of numerous progenitor galaxies. However, our knowledge of this process is still incomplete, especially in regard to the total number of mergers, their global dynamical properties…

We explore constraints on the Milky Way dark matter halo oblateness using three stellar streams from globular clusters NGC 3201, M68, and Palomar 5. Previous constraints on the gravitational potential from dynamical equilibrium of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-08 Carles G. Palau , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

$Context$. The assembly history experienced by the Milky Way is currently being unveiled thanks to the data provided by the $Gaia$ mission. It is likely that the globular cluster system of our Galaxy has followed a similarly intricate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Davide Massari , Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi
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