Gaia EDR3 view on galactic globular clusters

E Vasiliev, H Baumgardt - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We use the data from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) to study the kinematic properties of
Milky Way globular clusters. We measure the mean parallaxes and proper motions (PM) for …

A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3

L Costantin, PG Pérez-González, Y Guo, C Buttitta… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in
their central regions, including our Milky Way,. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically …

Nitrogen enrichment and clustered star formation at the dawn of the Galaxy

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Anomalously high nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratios [N/O] are observed in globular
clusters (GCs), among the field stars of the Milky Way (MW), and even in the gas in az≈ 11 …

The chemo-dynamical groups of Galactic globular clusters

TM Callingham, M Cautun, AJ Deason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a multicomponent chemo-dynamical method for splitting the Galactic
population of globular clusters (GCs) into three distinct constituents: bulge, disc, and stellar …

The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia–Enceladus Sausage merger

RJJ Grand, D Kawata, V Belokurov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We analyse a set of cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the formation of
Milky Way-mass galaxies identified to have a prominent radially anisotropic stellar halo …

The distribution of globular clusters in kinematic spaces does not trace the accretion history of the host galaxy

G Pagnini, P Di Matteo, S Khoperskov… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Reconstructing how all the stellar components of the Galaxy formed and assembled
over time by studying the properties of the stars that form it is the aim of Galactic …

The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay for RR Lyrae Stars (BRAVA-RR) DR2: A Bimodal Bulge?

A Kunder, A Pérez-Villegas, RM Rich… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The radial velocities of 2768 fundamental-mode RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) toward the southern
Galactic bulge are presented, spanning the southern bulge from− 8< l<+ 8 and− 3< b<− 6 …

VVV CL001: Likely the Most Metal-poor Surviving Globular Cluster in the Inner Galaxy

JG Fernández-Trincado, D Minniti… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first high-resolution abundance analysis of the globular cluster VVV CL001,
which resides in a region dominated by high interstellar reddening toward the Galactic …

The APO-K2 Catalog. I.∼ 7500 Red Giants with Fundamental Stellar Parameters from APOGEE DR17 Spectroscopy and K2-GAP Asteroseismology

J Schonhut-Stasik, JC Zinn, KG Stassun… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of fundamental stellar properties for∼ 7500 evolved stars, including
stellar radii and masses, determined from the combination of spectroscopic observations …

VVVX-Gaia discovery of a low luminosity globular cluster in the Milky Way disk

ER Garro, D Minniti, M Gómez, J Alonso-García… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) are difficult to identify at low Galactic latitudes
because of high differential extinction and heavy star crowding. The new deep near-infrared …