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Stellar streams produced from dwarf galaxies provide direct evidence of the hierarchical formation of the Milky Way. Here, we present the first comprehensive study of the "LMS-1" stellar stream, that we detect by searching for wide streams…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Khyati Malhan , Zhen Yuan , Rodrigo Ibata , Anke Arentsen , Michele Bellazzini , Nicolas F. Martin

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

The Magellanic Clouds are surrounded by an extended network of gaseous structures. Chief among these is the Magellanic Stream, an interwoven tail of filaments trailing the Clouds in their orbit around the Milky Way. When considered in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Elena D'Onghia , Andrew J. Fox

We establish that the Magellanic Stream (MS) is some 40 degrees longer than previously known with certainty and that the entire MS and Leading Arm (LA) system is thus at least 200 degrees long. With the GBT, we conducted a ~200 square…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 David L. Nidever , Steven R. Majewski , W. Butler Burton , Lou Nigra

The HST proper motion (PM) measurements of the Clouds have severe implications for their interaction history with the Milky Way (MW) and with each other. The Clouds are likely on their first passage about the MW and the SMC's orbit about…

We present a model for the formation of the Magellanic Stream (MS) due to ram pressure stripping. We model the history of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds in the recent cosmological past in a static Milky Way potential with diffuse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Peter Craig , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Stefi Baum , Benjamin T. Lewis

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) and their interactions with each other have given rise to multiple stellar substructures in their periphery as well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Bethany Garver , David Nidever , Victor Debattista , Nathan Deg

The extensive span of the Sagittarius (Sgr) stream makes it a promising tool for studying the Milky Way gravitational potential. Characterizing its stellar kinematics can constrain halo properties and provide a benchmark for the Cold Dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Marion Dierickx , Abraham Loeb

The infall of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) into the Milky Way (MW) has displaced the MW's centre of mass, manifesting as an observed reflex motion in the velocities of outer halo stars. We use a Simulation Based Inference framework to…

Stellar streams around the Milky Way (MW) can provide valuable insights into its history and substructure formation. Previous studies have suggested that several MW streams could have an origin related to that of the disc of satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Elena Asencio , Pavel Kroupa , Ingo Thies

We report the discovery of a substantial stellar overdensity in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), found using public imaging from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey. The structure appears to emanate from the edge of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Dougal Mackey , Sergey E. Koposov , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov , Gary S. Da Costa , Facundo A. Gómez

Currently only a small number of Milky Way (MW) stars are known to exist beyond 100 kpc from the Galactic center. Though the distribution of these stars in the outer halo is believed to be sparse, they can provide evidence of more recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Robyn E. Sanderson , Amy Secunda , Kathryn V. Johnston , John J. Bochanski

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC) are the closest major satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. They are likely on their first passage on an infalling orbit towards our Galaxy (Besla et al. 2007) and trace the ongoing dynamics of…

We explore the Magellanic Stream (MS) using a Gaussian decomposition of the HI velocity profiles in the Leiden-Argentine-Bonn (LAB) all-sky HI survey. This decomposition exposes the MS to be composed of two filaments distinct both spatially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 David L. Nidever , Steven R. Majewski , W. Butler Burton

I report the discovery of a stellar stream (Sutlej) using Gaia DR3 proper motions and XP metallicities located ~15 degrees north of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The stream is composed of two parallel linear components ("branches")…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-11 David L. Nidever

We present a 6-D map of the Orphan-Chenab (OC) stream by combining the data from Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey ($S^5$) and {\it Gaia}. We reconstruct the proper motion, radial velocity, distance, on-sky track and stellar…

We exploit the first data release from the Gaia mission to identify candidate Mira variables in the outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds. The repeated observations of sources during the initial phase of the Gaia mission is used to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Alis J. Deason , Vasily Belokurov , Denis Erkal , Sergey E. Koposov , Dougal Mackey

SCUSS is a u-band photometric survey covering about 4000 square degree of the South Galactic Cap, reaching depths of up to 23 mag. By extending around 1.5 mag deeper than SDSS single-epoch u data, SCUSS is able to probe much a larger volume…

We report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of a 63 degree-long tidal stream of stars, extending from Ursa Major to Cancer. The stream has no obvious association with the orbit of any known cluster or galaxy. The contrast of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carl J. Grillmair , Odysseas Dionatos

Tidal streams are a powerful probe of the Milky Way (MW) potential shape. In this paper, we introduce a simple test particle method to fit stream data, using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique to marginalise over uncertainties in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Lux , J. I. Read , G. Lake , K. V. Johnston