Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

The effect of the LMC on the Milky Way system

E Vasiliev - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review the recent theoretical and observational developments concerning the interaction
of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the Milky Way and its neighbourhood. An …

The global dynamical atlas of the milky way mergers: Constraints from Gaia EDR3–based orbits of globular clusters, stellar streams, and satellite galaxies

K Malhan, RA Ibata, S Sharma, B Famaey… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Milky Way halo was predominantly formed by the merging of numerous
progenitor galaxies. However, our knowledge of this process is still incomplete, especially in …

Tango for three: Sagittarius, LMC, and the Milky Way

E Vasiliev, V Belokurov, D Erkal - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We assemble a catalogue of candidate Sagittarius stream members with 5D and 6D phase-
space information, using astrometric data from Gaia DR2, distances estimated from RR …

No massive black holes in the Milky Way halo

P Mróz, A Udalski, MK Szymański, I Soszyński… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The gravitational wave detectors have shown a population of massive black holes that do
not resemble those observed in the Milky Way,–and whose origin is debated,–. According to …

Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

AP Cooper, SE Koposov, CA Prieto… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark
Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak …

Proper motions, orbits, and tidal influences of milky way dwarf spheroidal galaxies

AB Pace, D Erkal, TS Li - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine Gaia early data release 3 astrometry with accurate photometry and utilize a
probabilistic mixture model to measure the systemic proper motion of 52 dwarf spheroidal …

galstreams: A library of Milky Way stellar stream footprints and tracks

C Mateu - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nearly a hundred stellar streams have been found to date around the Milky Way and the
number keeps growing at an ever faster pace. Here we present the galstreams library, a …

S 5: Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6D map of the Orphan–Chenab stream

SE Koposov, D Erkal, TS Li, GS Da Costa… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a 6D map of the Orphan–Chenab (OC) stream by combining the data from
Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S 5) and Gaia. We reconstruct the proper …

Measuring the mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud with stellar streams observed by S 5

N Shipp, D Erkal, A Drlica-Wagner, TS Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar streams are excellent probes of the underlying gravitational potential in which they
evolve. In this work, we fit dynamical models to five streams in the Southern Galactic …