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Tidally disrupted globular cluster streams are usually observed, and therefore perceived, as narrow, linear and one-dimensional structures in the 6D phase-space. Here we show that the GD-1 stellar stream ($\approx$ 30 pc wide), which is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-23 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo A. Ibata , Raymond G. Carlberg , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese

Tidally dissolved globular clusters form thin stellar streams that preserve a historical record of their past evolution. We report a radial velocity dispersion of $2.3\pm0.3\,\textrm{km}\,\textrm{s}^{-1}$ in the GD-1 stellar stream using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Megan T. Gialluca , Rohan P. Naidu , Ana Bonaca

In this study, we investigate the chemical properties of the GD-1 stream using cross-matched, data-driven elemental abundances. The results reveal no clear $\alpha$-knee in the [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane, and strong abundance consistency between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Haoyang Liu , Cuihua Du

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

Using deep photometric data from CFHT/Megacam, we study the morphology and density of the GD-1 stream, one of the longest and coldest stellar streams in the Milky Way. Our deep data recovers the lower main sequence of the stream with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 T. J. L. de Boer , V. Belokurov , S. E. Koposov , L. Ferrarese , D. Erkal , P. Cote , J. F. Navarro

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

The $100^\circ$-long thin stellar stream in the Milky Way halo, GD-1, has an ensemble of features that may be due to dynamical interactions. Using high-resolution MMT/Hectochelle spectroscopy we show that a spur of GD-1-like stars outside…

GD-1 is a long, thin, Milky Way star stream that has readily visible density variations along its length. We quantify the locations, sizes and statistical significance of the density structure, i.e. gaps, using a set of scaled filters. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Raymond G. Carlberg , Carl J. Grillmair

Combining data from Gaia DR2, SDSS DR14 and LAMOST DR6, we update the fit to model of the properties of the stellar stream GD-1 and find that it has an age of $\sim 13$ Gyr, [Fe/H] of $-2.2\pm 0.12$, and a distance from the sun of $\sim 8$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-27 Guang-Wei Li , Brian Yanny , Yue Wu

Cold dark matter halos are expected to be triaxial and often tilted relative to the stellar disk. Stellar streams provide a sensitive tracer of the Milky Way's halo shape, though models for the Galactic potential are typically limited to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-11 Jacob Nibauer , Ana Bonaca

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 present a model for producing tidal streams from disrupting progenitors in arbitrary potentials, utilizing the idea that the majority of stars escape from the progenitor's two Lagrange points. The method involves releasing test particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Bowden , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-18 Eduardo Balbinot , Ivan Cabrera-Ziri , Carmela Lardo

Measurements of the GD-1 star stream velocity distribution within $\pm$3 degrees of the centerline find a total line of sight velocity spread of 5-6 km/s in the well measured $\phi_1=$ [-30, 0] region (Valluri25). The velocity spread is far…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-27 Raymond G. Carlberg

Stellar streams are sensitive tracers of low-mass dark matter subhalos and provide a means to test the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm on small scales. In this work, we connect the intrinsic velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Jacob Nibauer , Ana Bonaca , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , David N. Spergel , Jenny E. Greene

The GD-1 stellar stream exhibits spur and gap structures that may result from a close encounter with a dense substructure. When interpreted as a dark matter subhalo, the perturber is denser than predicted in the standard cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Xingyu Zhang , Hai-Bo Yu , Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler

The density variations in thin stellar streams may encode important information on the nature of the dark matter. For instance, if dark matter aggregates into massive sub-halos, these perturbers are expected to scatter stars out of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Rodrigo Ibata , Guillaume Thomas , Benoit Famaey , Khyati Malhan , Nicolas Martin , Giacomo Monari

We present a search for new members of the 300 km s$^{-1}$ stream (300S) near the dwarf galaxy Segue 1 using wide-field survey data. We identify 11 previously unknown bright stream members in the APOGEE-2 and SEGUE-1 and 2 spectroscopic…

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
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