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We report the discovery of a thin stellar stream - which we name the Jet stream - crossing the constellations of Hydra and Pyxis. The discovery was made in data from the SLAMS survey, which comprises deep $g$ and $r$ imaging for a $650$…

Dynamically cold stellar streams are the relics left over from globular cluster dissolution. These relics offer a unique insight into a now fully disrupted population of ancient clusters in our Galaxy. Using a combination of Gaia eDR3…

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The Giant GAlaxies, Dwarfs, and Debris Survey concentrates on the nearby universe to study how galaxies have interacted in groups of different morphology, density, and richness. In these groups we select the dominant spiral galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Johannes Ludwig , Anna Pasquali , Eva K. Grebel , John S. Gallagher

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

In this paper, we present a holistic view of the detection, characterization, and origin of stellar streams in the disk of a simulated Milky Way-like galaxy. The star-by-star simulation of the Galaxy evolves stars born in clusters in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-07 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting

The tidal disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy has generated a spectacular stream of stars wrapping around the entire Galaxy. We use data from $Gaia$ and the H3 Stellar Spectroscopic Survey to identify 823 high-quality Sagittarius…

The GD-1 stream is one of the longest and coldest stellar streams discovered to date, and one of the best objects for constraining the dark matter properties of the Milky Way. Using data from {\it Gaia} DR2 we study the proper motions,…

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We present results from a WIYN/OPTIC photometric and astrometric survey of the field of the open cluster NGC 188 ((l,b) = (122.8\arcdeg, 22.5\arcdeg)). We combine these results with the proper-motion and photometry catalog of Platais et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard , Imants Platais , William F. van Altena

We report the discovery of 31 new open clusters (OCs) identified in \textit{Gaia}~DR3 data through a systematic search over 220 adjacent $1^\circ\times1^\circ$ fields towards the Galactic anticentre, in the direction of the Perseus arm gap.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 F. A. Ferreira , M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

We perform a search for stellar streams around the Milky Way using the first three years of multi-band optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We use DES data covering $\sim 5000$ sq. deg. to a depth of $g > 23.5$ with a…

Stellar tidal streams are a key tracer of galaxy evolution and have the potential to provide an indirect means for tracing dark matter. For the Local Group, many diffuse substructures have been identified and their link to galaxy evolution…

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

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.…

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 a comparison of semi-analytic models of the phase-space structure of tidal debris with observations of stars associated with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr). We find that many features in the data can be explained by these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. V. Johnston , S. R. Majewski , M. H. Siegel , I. N. Reid , W. E. Kunkel

We present new near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the outer edges of the young stellar cluster around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. The observations show a break in the surface-density profile of young stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Morten N. Støstad , Tuan Do , Norm Murray , Jessica R. Lu , Sylvana Yelda , Andrea M. Ghez

Imaging at 1.25 and 2.20 microns has been obtained of the field containing the galaxy (RD1) found at redshift 5.34 by Dey et al.(1998). This galaxy has been detected at 1.25 microns, while the lower redshift (z=4.02) galaxy also found in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Armus , K. Matthews , G. Neugebauer , B. T. Soifer

Stellar streams in galaxy halos are the natural consequence of a history of merging and accretion. We present evidence for a blue tidal stream of young stars in the nearest giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 5128 (Centaurus A). Using optical UBVR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric W. Peng , Holland C. Ford , Kenneth C. Freeman , Richard L. White

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…