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We study the presence of tidal features associated with ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in galaxy clusters. Specifically, we stack deep Subaru images of UDGs in the Coma cluster to determine whether they show position angle twists at large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Lamiya Mowla , Pieter van Dokkum , Allison Merritt , Roberto Abraham , Masafumi Yagi , Jin Koda

Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), we present CS line maps in five rotational lines ($J_{\rm u}=7, 5, 4, 3, 2$) toward the circumnuclear disk (CND) and streamers of the Galactic Center. Our primary goal is to…

We present a stellar stream found in images of the nearby, nearly face-on, late-type galaxy, NGC 3938 obtained for the LBT Imaging of Galactic Halos and Tidal Structures (LIGHTS) survey that is thin, has very low mean surface brightness…

In this work, we study the Coma cluster, one of the richest and most well-known systems at low redshifts, to explore the importance of low-flux objects in the identification of cluster substructures. In addition, we conduct a study of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-10 Alisson P. Costa , Andre. L. B. Ribeiro , Flavio R. de M. Neto , Juarez dos S. Junior

Stellar streams form through the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies or globular clusters orbiting a host galaxy. Globular cluster streams are exciting since they are thin (dynamically cold) and, therefore sensitive to perturbations from…

We have probed a section (l ~ 150, b ~ -60) of the trailing tidal arm of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy by identifying a sample of Red Clump stream stars. Red Clump stars are not generally found in the halo field, but are found in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-10 Kenneth Carrell , Ronald Wilhelm , Yuqin Chen

Stellar streams, long, thin streams of stars, have been used as sensitive probes of dark matter substructure for over two decades. Gravitational interactions between dark matter substructures and streams lead to the formation of low-density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 Paul Menker , Andrew Benson

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

Low surface density streams are important tracers to study the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. Using the accurate astrometric measurements from Gaia mission, we discover a low surface density stream in the north hemisphere, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Dongwei Fan , Changqing Luo , Jundan Nie , Ming Yang , Yujiao Yang , Bo Zhang

We report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of at least three, roughly parallel components in a 65 degree-long stellar stream complex previously identified with the Anticenter or Monoceros Ring. The three-stream complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Grillmair

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 $650$…

A pole-count analysis of the infrared 2MASS survey is presented, in order to identify faint stream-like structures within the halo of the Milky Way. Selecting stars with colours consistent with M-giant stars, we find a strong over-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. A. Ibata , G. F. Lewis , M. J. Irwin , L. Cambresy

The Coma supercluster (100 Mpc) offers an unprecedented contiguous range of environments in the nearby Universe. In this paper we present a catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed galaxies in the Coma supercluster detected in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Smriti Mahajan , Ankit Singh , Devika Shobhana

Spectroscopy for faint dwarf galaxies outside of our own Local Group is challenging. Here, we present MUSE spectroscopy to study the properties of four known dwarf satellites and one stellar stream (KK208) surrounding the nearby grand…

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,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 T. J. L. de Boer , D. Erkal , M. Gieles

Pal 5 is a low mass, low velocity dispersion, globular cluster with spectacular tidal tails. We use the SDSS DR8 data to extend the density measurements of the trailing star stream to 23 degrees distance from the cluster, at which point the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. G. Carlberg , C. J. Grillmair , Nathan Hetherington

The wide-field CCD camera at the CFH telescope was used to survey the giant stellar stream in the Andromeda galaxy, resolving stars down the red giant branch in M31 to I ~ 25, a magnitude deeper than our previous INT survey of this galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. W. McConnachie , M. J. Irwin , R. A. Ibata , A. M. N. Ferguson , G. F. Lewis , N. Tanvir

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

Dynamically cold stellar streams from tidally dissolved globular clusters (GCs) serve as excellent tools to measure the Galactic mass distribution and show promise to probe the nature of dark matter. For successful application of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 Colin Holm-Hansen , Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

The longest recognized stellar stream in the Milky Way Galaxy has an expanse of over more than half the north sky. There was a physical disturbance within the stream, 500 million years ago, which could have been the scar of a dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-29 Carissma McGee