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Recent observations have shown that the majority of the Andromeda galaxy's satellites are aligned in a thin plane. On the theoretical side it has been proposed that galaxies acquire their gas via cold streams. In addition, numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-29 Tobias Goerdt , Andreas Burkert , Daniel Ceverino

We have designed a powerful new algorithm to detect stellar streams in an automated and systematic way. The algorithm, which we call the STREAMFINDER, is well suited for finding dynamically cold and thin stream structures that may lie along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo Ibata

Galactic HI emission profiles in an area where several large-scale filaments at velocities ranging from -46 km/s to 0 km/s overlap were decomposed into Gaussian components. Eighteen families of components defined by similarities of center…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Gerrit L Verschuur

We report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of at least three, roughly parallel components in a 65 degree-long stellar stream complex previously identified with the Anticenter or Monoceros Ring. The three-stream complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Grillmair

Orbital debris presents a growing risk to space operations, and is becoming a significant source of contamination of astronomical images. Much of the debris population is uncatalogued, making the impact more difficult to assess. We present…

We present evidence for a new Milky Way stellar tidal stream in the direction of the Andromeda and Triangulum (M31 and M33) galaxies. Using a matched-filter technique, we search the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8 by creating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Ana Bonaca , Marla Geha , Nitya Kallivayalil

We present results from a WIYN/OPTIC photometric and astrometric survey of the field of the open cluster NGC 188 ((l,b) = (122.8\arcdeg, 22.5\arcdeg)). We combine these results with the proper-motion and photometry catalog of Platais et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard , Imants Platais , William F. van Altena

We consider the problem of computing a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation of the Hamming distance between a pattern of length $n$ and successive substrings of a stream. We first look at the one-way randomised communication complexity of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Raphael Clifford , Tatiana Starikovskaya

The radial velocities are measured for 45 galaxies located in the neighborhoods of 29 likely isolated galaxies in a new catalog. We find that about 85% of these galaxies actually are well isolated objects. 4% of nearby galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. V. Melnyk , V. E. Karachentseva , I. D. Karachentsev , D. I. Makarov , I. V. Chilingarian

We have estimated the spiral pattern speed in the Galaxy $\Omega_p$ from a large sample of young open star clusters (OSCs). For this purpose, we have used 2494 OSCs younger than 50 Myr. Their mean proper motions, line-of-sight velocities,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-25 Vadim V. Bobylev , Anisa T. Bajkova

Using high-resolution ultraviolet spectra obtained with the HST/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, we study the metallicity, kinematics, and distance of the gaseous "Outer Arm" (OA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Todd M. Tripp , Limin Song

The Ophiuchus stellar stream presents a dynamical puzzle: its old stellar populations ($\sim 12$ Gyr) cannot be reconciled with (1) its orbit in a simple model for the Milky Way potential and (2) its short angular extent, both of which…

The Magellanic Stream is a 100\deg x 10\deg filament of gas which lies within the Galactic halo and contains ~ 2 x 10^8 \Msun of neutral hydrogen. We present data from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) in the first complete survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. E. Putman , L. Staveley-Smith , K. C. Freeman , B. K. Gibson , D. G. Barnes

We investigate the possibility that the recently discovered Hercules Milky Way satellite is in fact a stellar stream in formation, thereby explaining its very elongated shape with an axis ratio of 3 to 1. Under the assumption that Hercules…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicolas F. Martin , Shoko Jin

Observations show that stellar streams originating in satellite dwarf galaxies are frequent in the Universe. While such events are predicted by theory, it is not clear how many of the streams that are generated are washed out afterwards to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Martín Mestre , Claudio Llinares , Daniel D. Carpintero

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…

The Cold Dark Matter paradigm predicts vast numbers of dark matter sub-halos to be orbiting in galactic halos. The sub-halos are detectable through the gaps they create gaps in stellar streams. The gap-rate is an integral over the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Raymond G. Carlberg

We report the discovery of a narrow stellar stream crossing the constellations of Sculptor and Fornax in the Southern celestial hemisphere. The portion of the stream detected in the Data Release 1 photometry of the ATLAS survey is at least…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. E. Koposov , M. Irwin , V. Belokurov , E. Gonzales-Solares , A. Kupcu Yoldas , J. Lewis , N. Metcalfe , T. Shanks

The high- and intermediate-velocity interstellar clouds (HVCs/IVCs) are tracers of energetic processes in and around the Milky Way. Clouds with near-solar metallicity about one kpc above the disk trace the circulation of material between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 B. P. Wakker , D. G. York , R. Wilhelm , J. C. Barentine , P. Richter , T. C. Beers , Z. Ivezic , J. C. Howk