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We present low-resolution MMT Hectospec spectroscopy of 594 candidate Monoceros stream member stars. Based on strong color-magnitude diagram overdensities, we targeted three fields within the stream's footprint, with 178 deg < l < 203 deg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-28 Aaron M. Meisner , Anna Frebel , Mario Juric , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

Recent years have seen the discovery of an ever growing number of stellar debris streams and clouds. These structures are typically detected as extended and often curvilinear overdensities of metal-poor stars that stand out from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-06 Carl J. Grillmair , Jeffrey L. Carlin

We combine the power of two stream-searching tools, STREAMFINDER and StarGO applied to the Gaia EDR3 data, to detect stellar debris belonging to the Cetus stream system that forms a complex, nearly polar structure around the Milky Way. In…

We present results of our dynamical stream modelling for the North West Stream in the outer halo of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Comprising two main segments, the North West Stream was thought to be a single structured arching around M31.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Janet Preston , Denis Erkal , Michelle L. M. Collins , R. Michael Rich , Rodrigo Ibata , Maxime Delorme

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 $650$…

We present a panoramic map of the entire Milky Way halo north of dec~-30 degrees (~30,000 deg^2), constructed by applying the matched-filter technique to the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi Survey dataset. Using single-epoch photometry reaching to g~22, we…

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

We present DECam imaging for the peculiar Galactic globular clusters NGC1851, NGC1904 (M79), NGC2298 and NGC2808. Our deep photometry reveals that all the clusters have an important contribution of stars beyond their King tidal radii and…

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

Tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their satellites are fundamental processes in a Universe with L-Cold Dark Matter cosmology, redistributing material into faint features that preserve records of past galactic interactions.…

We examine the nature, possible orbits and physical properties of the progenitor of the North-western stellar stream (NWS) in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). The progenitor is assumed to be an accreting dwarf galaxy with globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Takanobu Kirihara , Yohei Miki , Masao Mori

From the $\Lambda$ cold dark matter paradigm it is expected that galaxies merge and grow in their environments. These processes form various tidal features depending on the merger mass ratio, orbital parameters, and gas richness. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Jan-Niklas Pippert , Matthias Kluge , Ralf Bender

We develop a semi-analytic method for determining the phase-space population of tidal debris along the orbit of a disrupting satellite galaxy and illustrate its use with a number of applications. We use this method to analyze Zhao's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Kathryn V. Johnston

We report the discovery of a thin stellar stream found in Pan-STARRS1 photometry near the Galactic bulge in the constellation of Ophiuchus. It appears as a coherent structure in the colour-selected stellar density maps produced to search…

[Abridged] Within the hierarchical framework for galaxy formation, minor merging and tidal interactions are expected to shape all large galaxies to the present day. As a consequence, most seemingly normal disk galaxies should be surrounded…

Combining the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer All-Sky Release with the 2MASS Point Source Catalog, we detect a nearby, moderately metal-poor stellar debris stream spanning 24 degrees across the southern sky. The stream, which we…

The velocity, position, and action variable evolution of a tidal stream drawn out of a star cluster in a triaxial isochrone potential containing a sub-halo population reproduces many of the orbital effects of more general cosmological halos…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Raymond G. Carlberg

We trace the tidal Stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) using Red Clump stars from the catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Data Release 6, in the range 150{\deg} < RA < 220{\deg}, corresponding to the range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Correnti , M. Bellazzini , R. A. Ibata , F. R. Ferraro , A. Varghese

The halo region of M31 exhibits a startling level of stellar inhomogeneities, the most prominent of which is the "giant southern stream". Our previous analysis indicates that this stream, as well as several other observed features, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark A. Fardal , Arif Babul , Puragra Guhathakurta , Karoline M. Gilbert , Cara Dodge

We report the discovery of a giant stellar tidal stream in the halo of NGC 4631, a nearby edge-on spiral galaxy interacting with the spiral NGC 4656, in deep images taken with a 40-cm aperture robotic telescope. The stream has two…

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