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We apply the automatic stellar stream detection algorithm StarStream to Gaia Data Release 3 and identify 87 stellar streams associated with Galactic globular clusters (GCs), including 34 high-quality cases with median completeness and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

Stellar streams that emerge from globular clusters (GCs) are thin stellar structures spread along the orbits of progenitor clusters. Numerical modeling of these streams is essential for understanding their interaction with the host galaxy's…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-14 Yingtian Chen , Monica Valluri , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Neil Ash

We develop a new method for simulating stellar streams generated by globular clusters using angle-action coordinates. This method reproduces the variable mass-loss and variable frequency of the stripped stars caused by the changing tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-10 Carles G. Palau , Wenting Wang , Jiaxin Han

Velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) in stellar streams from globular clusters (GCs) is sensitive to heating by Galactic substructure, including dark matter (DM) subhalos. Recent studies have compared $\sigma$ in observed and modeled streams to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 Newlin C. Weatherford , Ana Bonaca

We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Michael Hilker , Holger Baumgardt , Antonio Sollima , Andrea Bellini

The Gaia mission has provided precise astrometry and spectrophotometry for billions of stars in the Milky Way, enabling the identification and kinematic characterization of stellar streams. These streams, remnants of disrupted globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Claire S. Ye , Raymond G. Carlberg

Thin stellar streams originating from globular clusters are among the most sensitive tracers of low-mass dark-matter subhalos. Joint analysis of the entire population of stellar streams will place the most robust constraints on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Sarah Pearson , Ana Bonaca , Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

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

In this paper we analyze data of 8 elliptical galaxies in order to study the difference between their globular cluster systems (GCSs) radial distributions and those of the galactic stellar component. In all the galaxies studied here the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti

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

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 dynamical model globular clusters are introduced into reconstituted versions of the dark matter halos of the Via-Lactea II (VL-2) simulation to follow the star cluster tidal mass loss and stellar stream formation. The clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Raymond G. Carlberg

Many scenarios for the origin of the chemical anomalies observed in globular clusters (GCs; i.e., multiple populations) require that GCs were much more massive at birth, up to $10-100\times$, than they are presently. This is invoked in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Nate Bastian , Carmela Lardo

Tidal streams of globular clusters are ideal tracers of the Galactic gravitational potential. Compared to the few known, complex and diffuse dwarf-galaxy streams, they are kinematically cold, have thin morphologies and are abundant in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 A. H. W. Küpper , E. Balbinot , A. Bonaca , K. V. Johnston , D. W. Hogg , P. Kroupa , B. X. Santiago

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

The Gaia mission promises to deliver precision astrometry at an unprecedented level, heralding a new era for discerning the kinematic and spatial coordinates of stars in our Galaxy. Here, we present a new technique for estimating the age of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Sownak Bose , Idan Ginsburg , Abraham Loeb

Stars in globular clusters (GCs) lose a non negligible amount of mass during their post-main sequence evolution. This material is then expected to build up a substantial intra-cluster medium (ICM) within the GC. However, the observed gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 W. Chantereau , P. Biernacki , M. Martig , N. Bastian , M. Salaris , R. Teyssier

We have derived the mean proper motions and space velocities of 154 Galactic globular clusters and the velocity dispersion profiles of 141 globular clusters based on a combination of Gaia DR2 proper motions with ground-based line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker , A. Sollima , A. Bellini

We have studied the system of globular clusters (GCs) that formed in other galaxies and eventually accreted onto the Milky Way. Thus, the samples of GCs belonging to different tidal streams, obtained on the basis of the latest data from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-23 N. R. Arakelyan , S. V. Pilipenko

The Gaia mission has led to the discovery of over 100 stellar streams in the Milky Way, most of which likely originated from globular clusters (GCs). As the upcoming wide-field surveys can potentially continue to increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-12 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Colin Holm-Hansen
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