Galactic Archaeology with Gaia

AJ Deason, V Belokurov - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Gaia mission has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way and its satellite citizens. The
field of Galactic Archaeology has been piecing together the formation and evolution of the …

StarHorse results for spectroscopic surveys and Gaia DR3: Chrono-chemical populations in the solar vicinity, the genuine thick disk, and young alpha-rich stars

ABA Queiroz, F Anders, C Chiappini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The Gaia mission has provided an invaluable wealth of astrometric data for more than a
billion stars in our Galaxy. The synergy between Gaia astrometry, photometry, and …

Gaia DR3 view of dynamical substructure in the stellar halo near the Sun

E Dodd, TM Callingham, A Helmi, T Matsuno… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Debris from past merger events is expected and also known, to some extent, to
populate the stellar halo near the Sun. Aims. We aim to identify and characterise such …

Substructure in the stellar halo near the Sun-I. Data-driven clustering in integrals-of-motion space

SS Lövdal, T Ruiz-Lara, HH Koppelman… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Merger debris is expected to populate the stellar haloes of galaxies. In the case of
the Milky Way, this debris should be apparent as clumps in a space defined by the orbital …

Hidden deep in the halo: selection of a reduced proper motion halo catalogue and mining retrograde streams in the velocity space

A Viswanathan, E Starkenburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Milky Way halo is one of the few galactic haloes that provides a unique
insight into galaxy formation by resolved stellar populations. Here, we present a catalogue …

Cluster Ages to Reconstruct the Milky Way Assembly (CARMA)-I. The final word on the origin of NGC 6388 and NGC 6441

D Massari, F Aguado-Agelet, M Monelli… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present CARMA, the Cluster Ages to Reconstruct the Milky Way Assembly project, the
aim of which is to determine precise and accurate age measurements for the entire system …

The 33 M⊙ black hole Gaia BH3 is part of the disrupted ED-2 star cluster

E Balbinot, E Dodd, T Matsuno, C Lardo… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The Gaia Collaboration has recently reported the detection of a 33 M⊙ black hole
in a wide binary system located in the solar neighbourhood. Aims. Here we explore the …

Photometric metallicity for 694 233 Galactic giant stars from Gaia DR3 synthetic Strömgren photometry-Metallicity distribution functions of halo substructures

M Bellazzini, D Massari, F De Angeli… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We used two previous calibrations and the standardised synthetic photometry in the v, b,
and y Strömgren passbands from Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra to obtain photometric …

A Walk on the Retrograde Side (WRS) project-I. Tidying-up the retrograde halo with high-resolution spectroscopy

E Ceccarelli, D Massari, A Mucciarelli… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Relics of ancient accretion events experienced by the Milky Way are predominantly located
within the stellar halo of our Galaxy. However, debris from different objects display …

New stellar velocity substructures from Gaia DR3 proper motions

D Mikkola, PJ McMillan, D Hobbs - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Local stellar motions are expected, and have been shown, to include signatures of the
Galaxy's past dynamical evolution. These are typically divided into the disc, which shows the …