Beasts of the Southern Wild: Discovery of nine Ultra Faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds

SE Koposov, V Belokurov, G Torrealba… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We have used the publicly released Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to hunt for new
satellites of the Milky Way (MW) in the southern hemisphere. Our search yielded a large …

Final Targeting Strategy for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 North Survey

RL Beaton, RJ Oelkers, CR Hayes… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is a
dual-hemisphere, near-infrared (NIR), spectroscopic survey with the goal of producing a …

Sagittarius II, Draco II and Laevens 3: Three new Milky Way satellites discovered in the Pan-STARRS 1 3π survey

BPM Laevens, NF Martin, EJ Bernard… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of three new Milky Way satellites from our search for compact
stellar overdensities in the photometric catalog of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and …

Rings and radial waves in the disk of the Milky Way

Y Xu, HJ Newberg, JL Carlin, C Liu… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that in the anticenter region, between Galactic longitudes of 110< l< 229, there is
an oscillating asymmetry in the main-sequence star counts on either side of the Galactic …

A new faint Milky Way satellite discovered in the Pan-STARRS1 3π survey

BPM Laevens, NF Martin, RA Ibata… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of a faint Milky Way satellite, Laevens 2/Triangulum II, found in the
Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System 3π imaging data and confirmed …

Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites

C Wheeler, J Onorbe, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We present Feedback in Realistic Environment (FIRE)/Gizmo hydrodynamic zoom-
in simulations of isolated dark matter haloes, two each at the mass of classical dwarf …

Mapping substructure in the HST Frontier Fields cluster lenses and in cosmological simulations

P Natarajan, U Chadayammuri… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We map the lensing-inferred substructure in the first three clusters observed by the Hubble
Space Telescope Frontier Fields (HSTFF) Initiative: Abell 2744 (z= 0.308), MACSJ 0416,(z …

Satellite dwarf galaxies in a hierarchical universe: infall histories, group preprocessing, and reionization

AR Wetzel, AJ Deason… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT In the Local Group (LG), almost all satellite dwarf galaxies that are within the
virial radius of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) exhibit strong environmental …

Kinematics and chemistry of recently discovered Reticulum 2 and Horologium 1 dwarf galaxies

SE Koposov, AR Casey, V Belokurov… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on VLT/GIRAFFE spectra of stars in two recently discovered ultra-faint satellites,
Reticulum 2 and Horologium 1, obtained as part of the Gaia-ESO Survey. We identify 18 …

The no-spin zone: rotation versus dispersion support in observed and simulated dwarf galaxies

C Wheeler, AB Pace, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We perform a systematic Bayesian analysis of rotation versus dispersion support (v rot/σ) in
40 dwarf galaxies throughout the local volume (LV) over a stellar mass range of. We find that …