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In the hierarchical assembly framework, the accretion history of the Milky Way is crucial to understand its evolution. However, in massive mergers, integrals of motion are not strictly conserved, redistributing accreted stars across…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 A. Mori , P. Di Matteo , S. Salvadori , M. Mondelin , S. Khoperskov , M. Haywood , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti

H-band spectra contain very limited spectral information for stars at the most metal-poor tail ( Fe/H < -2.5) because the available Fe lines in FGK stars in this wavelength range are weak. The first paper in this series successfully…

The Gaia mission has provided the largest ever astrometric chart of the Milky Way. Using it to map the Galactic halo is helpful for disentangling its merger history. The identification of halo stars in Gaia DR2 with reliable distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-25 Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi

We present a comprehensive chemical abundance analysis of five red giants and two horizontal branch (HB) stars towards the southern Galactic bulge, at (l,b)$\sim$(0$^{\rm o}$,-11$^{\rm o}$). Based on high-resolution spectroscopy obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Andreas Koch , Andrew McWilliam , George W. Preston , Ian B. Thompson

The Milky Way halo is one of the few galactic haloes that provides a unique insight into galaxy formation by resolved stellar populations. Here, we present a catalogue of $\sim$47 million halo stars selected independent of parallax and…

This work explores the detailed chemistry of the Milky Way bulge using the HERMES spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Here we present the abundance ratios of 13 elements for 832 red giant branch and clump stars along the minor…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 L. Duong , M. Asplund , D. M. Nataf , K. C. Freeman , M. Ness

The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a large-scale stellar spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way and designed to deliver chemical information complementary to a large number of stars covered by the $Gaia$ mission. We…

We combine the power of two stream-searching tools, STREAMFINDER and StarGO applied to the Gaia EDR3 data, to detect stellar debris belonging to the Cetus stream system that forms a complex, nearly polar structure around the Milky Way. In…

APOGEE-2 is a high-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopic survey observing roughly 300,000 stars across the entire sky. It is the successor to APOGEE and is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). APOGEE-2 is expanding upon…

Large pristine samples of red clump stars are highly sought after given that they are standard candles and give precise distances even at large distances. However, it is difficult to cleanly select red clumps stars because they can have the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Madeline Lucey , Yuan-Sen Ting , Nesar S. Ramachandra , Keith Hawkins

Context. Stellar tidal streams are the result of tidal interactions between a central galaxy and lower mass systems like satellite galaxies or globular clusters. For the Local Group, many diffuse substructures have been identified and their…

The slopes of interstellar reddening lines in the 2MASS J-H versus H-Ks diagrams for 26 areas in the inner Galaxy (from Vulpecula to Centaurus) are determined. For this aim we use the red-clump giants located inside and behind spiral arms,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-09 V. Straizys , V. Laugalys

The Galactic Center region, including the nuclear disk, has until recently been largely avoided in chemical census studies because of extreme extinction and stellar crowding. Making use of the latest APOGEE data release (DR16), we are able…

We analyze the structure and chemo-dynamical properties of the Galactic bulge using ab-type RR Lyrae stars (RRabs) from OGLE-IV and giant stars from APOGEE and Gaia. Orbital integration of 1,879 RRab variables reveals three populations:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Hai-Feng Wang , Xiao Han , Giovanni Carraro , Martin Lopez-Corredoira , Yuan-Sen Ting , Guan-Yu Wang

We present [C/N]-[Fe/H] abundance trends from the SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey, Data Release 14 (DR14), for red giant branch stars across the Milky Way Galaxy (MW, 3 kpc $<$ R $<$ 15 kpc).…

An all high-latitude sky survey for cool carbon giant stars in the Galactic halo has revealed 75 such stars, of which the majority are new detections. Of these, more than half are clustered on a Great Circle on the sky which intersects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rodrigo Ibata , Geraint F. Lewis , Michael Irwin , Edward Totten , Thomas Quinn

(ABRIDGED) Globular clusters trace the formation and evolution of the Milky Way and surrounding galaxies, and outline their chemical enrichment history. To accomplish these tasks it is important to have large samples of clusters with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Bruno Dias , Beatriz Barbuy , Ivo Saviane , Enrico Held , Gary Da Costa , Sergio Ortolani , Marco Gullieuszik , Sergio Vasquez

Stellar streams in the Galactic halo are useful probes of the assembly of galaxies like the Milky Way. Many tidal stellar streams that have been found in recent years are accompanied by a known progenitor globular cluster or dwarf galaxy.…

Measurements of [Fe/H] and radial velocity are presented for 89 RR Lyrae (RRL) candidates within 6 kpc of the Sun. After removal of two suspected non-RRL, these stars were added to an existing database, which yielded 464 RRL with [Fe/H] on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Zinn , X. Chen , A. C. Layden , D. I. Casetti-Dinescu

Studying the composition and origin of the inner region of our Galaxy -- the "Galactic bulge" -- is crucial for understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way and other galaxies. We present new observational constraints based on…