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We apply the clustering algorithm HDBSCAN on the Gaia early third data release astrometry combined with the Gaia second data release radial velocity measurements of almost 5.5 million stars to identify the local stellar kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiaowei Ou , Lina Necib , Anna Frebel

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 have compiled a catalog of late-type stars (F5-M) member of representative young disk stellar kinematic groups: the Local Association (Pleiades moving group, 20 - 150 Myr), Ursa Mayor group (Sirius supercluster, 300 Myr), and Hyades…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Montes , A. Latorre , M. J. Fernandez-Figueroa

Based on the kernel estimator and wavelet technique, we have identified 22 moving group candidates in the solar neighborhood from a sample which includes around 14,000 dwarfs and 6000 giants. Six of them were previously known as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Jingkun Zhao , Gang Zhao , Yuqin Chen

The existence of long (> 100 kpc) HI streams and small (< 20 kpc) free-floating HI clouds is well-known. While the formation of the streams has been investigated extensively, and the isolated clouds are often purported to be interaction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 R. Taylor , J. I. Davies , P. Jachym , O. Keenan , R. F. Minchin , J. Palous , R. Smith , R. Wunsch

Nearly a hundred progenitor-less, thin stellar streams have been discovered in the Milky Way, thanks to Gaia and related surveys. Most streams are believed to have formed from star clusters and it was recently proposed that extended star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-24 Daniel Roberts , Mark Gieles , Denis Erkal , Jason L. Sanders

Simulations of tidal streams show that close encounters with dark matter subhalos induce density gaps and distortions in on-sky path along the streams. Accordingly, observing disrupted streams in the Galactic halo would substantiate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Emily Sandford , Andreas H. W. Kuepper , Kathryn V. Johnston , Juerg Diemand

The HR 1614 overdensity in velocity space and has for a long time been known as an old (~2 Gyr) and metal-rich ([Fe/H]~0.2) nearby moving group that has a dissolving cluster origin. The existence of such old and metal-rich groups in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Iryna Kushniruk , Thomas Bensby , Sofia Feltzing , Christian L. Sahlholdt , Diane Feuillet , Luca Casagrande

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

We reveal the highly structured nature of the Milky Way stellar halo within the footprint of the PAndAS photometric survey from blue main sequence and main sequence turn-off stars. We map no fewer than five stellar structures within a…

Generally the dynamical state of superclusters is poorly known. We study properties of superclusters and select a sample of quasi-spherical superclusters, the dynamics of which can be studied using the $\Lambda$ significance diagram. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Pekka Heinämäki , Pekka Teerikorpi , Marian Douspis , Pasi Nurmi , Maret Einasto , Mirt Gramann , Jukka Nevalainen , Enn Saar

Measurements of velocity and density perturbations along stellar streams in the Milky Way provide a time integrated measure of dark matter substructure at larger galactic radius than the complementary instantaneous inner halo strong lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Raymond Carlberg , Carl Grillmair

In a serie of three papers, the dynamical interplay between environments and dark matter haloes is investigated, while focussing on the dynamical flows through their virial sphere. Our method relies on both cosmological simulations, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dominique Aubert , Christophe Pichon

We have analyzed the catalog of 2106 non-kinematically selected metal poor stars in the solar neighborhood published by Beers et al. (2000), with the goal of quantifying the amount of substructure in the motions of the fastest halo stars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. ReFiorentin , A. Helmi , M. G. Lattanzi , A. Spagna

We report long baseline interferometric observations with the CHARA Array that resolve six previously known double-lined spectroscopic binary systems in the Hyades cluster, with orbital periods ranging from 3 to 358 days: HD 27483, HD…

We report the discovery of a stellar stream in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1A1) data. The discovery was made through simple color-magnitude filters and visual inspection of the Y1A1 data. We refer to this new object as the Phoenix…

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

Combining resolved optical spectroscopy with panoramic HST imaging, we study the dynamical properties of spiral galaxies as a function of position across two intermediate redshift clusters, and we compare the cluster population to field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Sean M. Moran , Neil Miller , Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis , Graham P. Smith

Context. Protoplanetary disks are known to host spiral features that are observed in scattered light, ALMA continuum and more recently in CO gas emission and gas dynamics. It is however unknown if spirals in gas and dust trace the same…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ardjan Sturm , Giovanni Rosotti , Carsten Dominik

Stellar streams from disrupted globular clusters are excellent probes of dark matter (DM) subhalos. Observed Milky Way streams display a remarkable diversity of features: spurs, gaps, kinks, cocoons, and density variations, many attributed…