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By mining the data from $Gaia$ EDR3, SDSS/SEGUE DR16 and LAMOST DR8, 11 member stars of the NGC 5466 tidal stream are detected and 7 of them are newly identified. To reject contaminators, a variety of cuts are applied in sky position,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 Yong Yang , Jing-Kun Zhao , Miho N. Ishigaki , Jian-Zhao Zhou , Cheng-Qun Yang , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Xian-Hao Ye , Gang Zhao

We develop a framework for modelling the Milky Way using stellar streams and a wide range of photometric and kinematic observations. Through the use of mock data we demonstrate that a standard suite of Galactic observations leads to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Nathan Deg , Lawrence Widrow

Stellar streams -- formed from tidally stripped globular clusters or dwarf galaxies -- are sensitive tracers of a galaxy's accretion history and gravitational potential. While numerous streams are known in the Milky Way (MW), the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Sachi Weerasooriya , Tjitske Starkenburg , Emily C. Cunningham , Kathryn V Johnston

The Magellanic Stream, a gaseous tail that trails behind the Magellanic Clouds, could replenish the Milky Way with a tremendous amount of gas if it reaches the Galactic disk before it evaporates into the halo. To determine how the…

Stellar streams are dynamically fragile structures formed by the tidal disruption of dwarf galaxies and stellar clusters. These objects are valuable tracers of the gravitational potential and accretion history of the Milky Way, and are key…

We report the discovery of a young (${\rm age} \sim 130~{\rm Myr}$), low-mass ($M \sim 1200~{\rm M}_\odot$), metal-poor ($[{\rm Fe}/{\rm H}] \sim -1.1$) stellar association at a heliocentric distance $D \approx 29~{\rm kpc}$, placing it far…

Stellar atmospheric element abundance ratios of stars retain information about their birth conditions, helping elucidate their origin and nature. In this letter, we analyse and contrast the hydrostatic and explosive $\alpha$-element…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Danny Horta , Melissa K. Ness

Observations of stellar streams in M31's outer halo suggest that M31 is actively accreting several dwarf galaxies and their globular clusters (GCs). Detailed abundances can chemically link clusters to their birth environments, establishing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Charli M. Sakari

We use a novel cluster identification tool StarGO to explore the metal poor ([Fe/H] $<$ -1.5) outer stellar halo (d $>$ 15 kpc) of the Milky Way using data from Gaia, LAMOST and SDSS. Our method is built using an unsupervised learning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Zhen Yuan , M. C. Smith , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Jing Li , Chao Liu , Yue Wang , Lu Li , Jiang Chang

In this contribution we discuss the expected properties of our halo if our Galaxy had been built from mergers of smaller systems. Using both analytic arguments and high-resolution simulations, we find that the Galactic halo in the Solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amina Helmi

In this study, we investigate the chemical properties of the GD-1 stream using cross-matched, data-driven elemental abundances. The results reveal no clear $\alpha$-knee in the [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane, and strong abundance consistency between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Haoyang Liu , Cuihua Du

We studied 12 disk streams found in a 250$^3$ pc$^3$ volume in the solar neighborhood, which we define as coeval and comoving stellar structures with aspect ratios greater than 3:1. Using Gaia Data Release 3 data and the advanced clustering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Sebastian Ratzenböck , João Alves , Emily L. Hunt , Núria Miret-Roig , Stefan Meingast , Torsten Möller

The latest edition of the APOGEE-2/DR14 survey catalogue and the first \texttt{Payne} data release of APOGEE abundance determinations by Ting et al. are examined. We identify 31 previously unremarked metal-poor giant stars with anomalously…

Recent studies suggest that chemical abundances hold the key to disentangling halo substructure, providing a more reliable tracer than dynamics alone. We aim to probe the Milky Way stellar halo using high-dimensional chemical abundances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Milan Quandt-Rodriguez , Sara Lucatello , Lorenzo Spina , Mario Pasquato , Marco Canducci

This paper uses Gaussian mixture techniques to dissect the Milky Way (MW) stellar halo in angular momentum space. Application to a catalogue of 5389 stars near the plane of the Sagittarius (Sgr) stream with full 6D phase-space coordinates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 Jorge Peñarrubia , Michael S. Petersen

The Gaia mission has provided precise astrometry and spectrophotometry for billions of stars in the Milky Way, enabling the identification and kinematic characterization of stellar streams. These streams, remnants of disrupted globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Claire S. Ye , Raymond G. Carlberg

Globular cluster (GC) streams, debris of stars that tidally stripped from their progenitor GCs, have densities that correlate positively with the GC mass loss rate. In this work, we employ a novel particle spray algorithm that can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Yingtian Chen , Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Thin stellar streams originating from globular clusters are among the most sensitive tracers of low-mass dark-matter subhalos. Joint analysis of the entire population of stellar streams will place the most robust constraints on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Sarah Pearson , Ana Bonaca , Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Stellar streams result from the tidal disruption of satellites and star clusters as they orbit a host galaxy, and can be very sensitive probes of the gravitational potential of the host system. We select and study narrow stellar streams…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Robyn E. Sanderson , Johanna Hartke , Amina Helmi

Globular clusters (GCs) and their associated stellar streams are key tracers of the hierarchical assembly history of the Milky Way. $\omega$ Centauri, the most massive and chemically complex GC in the Galaxy, is widely believed to be the…