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We report the kinematic, orbital, and chemical properties of 12 stellar streams with no evident progenitors, using line-of-sight velocities and metallicities from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey ($S^5$), proper motions from…

We report the discovery of a $75\deg$ long stellar stream in Gaia DR2 catalog, found using the new STREAMFINDER algorithm. The structure is probably the remnant of a now fully disrupted globular cluster, lies $\approx 3.8 \, {\rm kpc}$ away…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Rodrigo A. Ibata , Khyati Malhan , Nicolas F. Martin , Else Starkenburg

The Fermi satellite discovery of the gamma-ray emitting bubbles extending 50 deg (10 kpc) from the Galactic Centre has revitalized earlier claims that our Galaxy has undergone an explosive episode in the recent past. We now explore a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Phil Maloney , Ralph Sutherland , Greg Madsen

We perform a large suite of direct N-body simulations aimed at revealing the location of the progenitor, or its remnant, of the GD-1 stream. Data from \gaia\ DR2 reveals the GD-1 stream extends over $\approx 100^\circ$, allowing us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Jeremy J. Webb , Jo Bovy

We report on the discovery in the Gaia DR3 astrometric and spectroscopic catalog of a new polar stream that is found as an over-density in action space. This structure is unique as it has an extremely large apocenter distance, reaching…

The Orphan Stream is one of the most prominent tidal streams in the Galactic halo. Using data on red giants, RR Lyrae, and horizontal branch stars from Gaia and other surveys, we determine the proper motion of the Orphan Stream over a path…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Mark A. Fardal , Roeland P. van der Marel , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Andres del Pino Molina

We present the first results of the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey of the interacting galaxy system, NGC4631 and NGC4656. From the maps of resolved stellar populations, we identify 11 dwarf galaxies (including already-known dwarfs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-26 Mikito Tanaka , Masashi Chiba , Yutaka Komiyama

In this work, we look for evidence of a non-unity mass ratio binary dwarf galaxy merger in the Sagittarius stream. Simulations of such a merger show that, upon merging with a host, particles from the less-massive galaxy will often mostly be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-15 Elliot Y. Davies , Stephanie Monty , Vasily Belokurov , Adam M. Dillamore

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…

We report the discovery of a new faint dwarf galaxy, which we dub Scl-MM-Dw1, at a projected distance of $\sim$65 kpc from the spiral galaxy NGC 253. The discovery results from the Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 D. J. Sand , D. Crnojević , J. Strader , E. Toloba , J. D. Simon , N. Caldwell , P. Guhathakurta , B. McLeod , A. C. Seth

We have followed up two ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), detected adjacent to stellar streams, with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging and HI mapping with the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in order to investigate the possibility that they…

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

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…

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…

Recently, a relationship between the water maser detection rate and far infrared (FIR) flux density has been found as a result of a 22 GHz maser survey in a sample comprised of northern galaxies with 100 micron flux density > 50 Jy and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-06 P. Castangia , A. Tarchi , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten

There are expected to be physical relationships between the globular clusters (GCs) and stellar substructures in the Milky Way, not all of which have yet been found. We search for such substructures from a combined halo sample of SDSS blue…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-05 Zhen Yuan , Jiang Chang , Timothy C. Beers , Yang Huang

Stellar streams are regarded as crucial objects to test galaxy formation models, with their morphology tracing the underlying potentials and their occurrence tracking the assembly history of the galaxies. The existence of one of the most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 Oliver Müller , Ana Vudragović , Michal Bílek

New data from the $\textit{Gaia}$ satellite, when combined with accurate photometry from the Pan-STARRS survey, allow us to accurately estimate the properties of the GD-1 stream. Here, we analyze the stellar density perturbations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-01 Nilanjan Banik , Jo Bovy , Gianfranco Bertone , Denis Erkal , T. J. L. de Boer

We present a panoramic map of the entire Milky Way halo north of dec~-30 degrees (~30,000 deg^2), constructed by applying the matched-filter technique to the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi Survey dataset. Using single-epoch photometry reaching to g~22, we…

Chemical abundances of stellar streams can be used to determine the nature of a stream's progenitor. Here we study the progenitor of the recently discovered Leiptr stellar stream, which was previously suggested to be a tidally disrupted…