The DECam local volume exploration survey: Overview and first data release

A Drlica-Wagner, JL Carlin, DL Nidever… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey
program on the 4 m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The mass of our Milky Way

WT Wang, JX Han, M Cautun, ZZ Li… - Science China Physics …, 2020 - Springer
We perform an extensive review of the numerous studies and methods used to determine
the total mass of the Milky Way. We group the various studies into seven broad classes …

Charting the Galactic acceleration field. I. A search for stellar streams with Gaia DR2 and EDR3 with follow-up from ESPaDOnS and UVES

R Ibata, K Malhan, N Martin, D Aubert… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present maps of the stellar streams detected in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) and
Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) catalogs using the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We also report …

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 …

Stellar streams discovered in the dark energy survey

N Shipp, A Drlica-Wagner, E Balbinot… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a search for stellar streams around the Milky Way using the first 3 yr of multiband
optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We use DES data covering∼ 5000 …

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 …

S 5: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams

TS Li, AP Ji, AB Pace, D Erkal… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the kinematic, orbital, and chemical properties of 12 stellar streams with no
evident progenitors using line-of-sight velocities and metallicities from the Southern Stellar …

Ghostly tributaries to the Milky Way: charting the halo's stellar streams with the Gaia DR2 catalogue

K Malhan, RA Ibata, NF Martin - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present a panoramic map of the stellar streams of the Milky Way based upon astrometric
and photometric measurements from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. In this first contribution, we …

The extended halo of Centaurus A: uncovering satellites, streams, and substructures

D Crnojević, DJ Sand, K Spekkens… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the widest-field resolved stellar map to date of the closest ($ D\sim 3.8$ Mpc)
massive elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A; Cen A), extending out to a projected …