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We analyzed the combined near-infrared spectrum of a star-planet system with thermal emission atmospheric models, based on the composition and physical parameters of the system. The main objective of this work is to obtain the inclination…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Patricio E. Cubillos , Patricio Rojo , Jonathan J. Fortney

A map of 100 degrees on a side extracted from Gaia DR2 and centred on Alpha Persei reveals two distinct structures | the Alpha Persei star cluster and a conspicuous stellar stream, as widely documented in recent literature. In this work we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Victoria V. Nikiforova , Maxim V. Kulesh , Anton F. Seleznev , Giovanni Carraro

Observations of the energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) of heliospheric origin by IBEX differ from expectations based on heliospheric models. It was proposed that the structure of the heliosphere may be similar to the "two-stream" model derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-03 A. Czechowski , J. Grygorczuk , D. J. McComas

Upcoming ground and space-based surveys are poised to illuminate low surface brightness tidal features, providing a new observable connection to dark matter physics. From imaging of tidal debris, the morphology of stellar streams can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Jacob Nibauer , Sarah Pearson

Combining the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer All-Sky Release with the 2MASS Point Source Catalog, we detect a nearby, moderately metal-poor stellar debris stream spanning 24 degrees across the southern sky. The stream, which we…

Estimating the meteoroid flux density at centimetre to metre sizes is notoriously difficult. Yet it is an important endeavour, as these sizes represent the transition between small meteoroids that pose a risk to spacecraft, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Konstantinos S. Servis , Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix , Eleanor K. Sansom , Thomas W. C. Stevenson

We present the results of a wide-field camera survey of the stars in the Monoceros Ring, thought to be an additional structure in the Milky Way of unknown origin. Lying roughly in the plane of the Milky Way, this may represent a unique…

We present deep Halpha spectroscopy towards several high-velocity clouds (HVCs) which vary in structure from compact (CHVCs) to the Magellanic Stream. The clouds range from being bright (~640 mR) to having upper limits on the order of 30 to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Putman , J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Veilleux , B. K. Gibson , K. C. Freeman , P. R. Maloney

We study the dynamics of faint stellar substructures around the Umbrella Galaxy, NGC 4651, which hosts a dramatic system of streams and shells formed through the tidal disruption of a nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy. We elucidate the…

Cold or Warm, the Dark Matter substructure spectrum must extend to objects with masses as low as $10^7 M_\odot$, according to the most recent Lyman-$\alpha$ measurements. Around a Milky Way-like galaxy, more than a thousand of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov

Tidal streams are highly sensitive to perturbations from passing dark matter (DM) subhalos and thus provide a means of measuring their abundance. In a recent paper, we analyzed the distribution of stars along the GD-1 stream with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Nilanjan Banik , Jo Bovy , Gianfranco Bertone , Denis Erkal , T. J. L. de Boer

Photoionization plays a crucial role in achieving accurate quantitative predictions in SF6 streamer simulations, but accurate models for SF6 photoionization remains limited, motivating this paper. First, we develop a computational model for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Zihao Feng , Liyang Zhang , Xiaobing Zou , Haiyun Luo

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a large tail of neutral and ionized gas originating from tidal and hydrodynamical interactions between the Magellanic Clouds as they orbit the Milky Way (MW). It carries a significant gas reservoir that could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Sapna Mishra , Andrew J. Fox , J. V. Smoker , Scott Lucchini , Elena D'Onghia

We present surface photometry of a very faint, giant arc feature in the halo of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 5055 (M63) that is consistent with being a part of a stellar stream resulting from the disruption of a dwarf satellite galaxy. This…

We use velocity and metallicity information from SDSS and SEGUE stellar spectroscopy to fit an orbit to the narrow $63^\circ$ stellar stream of Grillmair and Dionatos. The stars in the stream have a retrograde orbit with eccentricity $e =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-15 Benjamin A. Willett , Heidi Jo Newberg , Haotong Zhang , Brian Yanny , Timothy C. Beers

Very sensitive HI 21cm observations have been made in 860 directions at dec >= -43deg in search of weak, Galactic, high-velocity HI emission lines at moderate and high Galactic latitudes. One-third of the observations were made toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman , Edward M. Murphy , Sara Petty-Powell , Vincent J. Urick

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the…

One of the most promising tracers of the Galactic potential in the halo region are stellar streams. However, individual stream fits can be limited by systematic biases. To study these individual stream systematics, we fit streams in Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Stella Reino , Robyn E. Sanderson , Nondh Panithanpaisal , Elena M. Rossi , Konrad Kuijken

The study of the nature of faint radio sources is of great importance since a significant fraction of these objects is thought to be composed of actively star-forming galaxies. Due to the increased sensitivity of radio telescopes, we are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Afonso , B. Mobasher , A. Hopkins , L. Cram

We selected blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars within the expected distance range and sky position of the Hermus Stream from Data Release 10 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We identify a moving group of $19$ BHB stars that are concentrated…

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