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 …

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 …

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 …

The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan–Chenab stream

S Lilleengen, MS Petersen, D Erkal… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
It has recently been shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a substantial effect
on the Milky Way's stellar halo and stellar streams. Here, we explore how deformations of …

Symphony: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation Suites over Four Decades of Host Halo Mass

EO Nadler, P Mansfield, Y Wang, X Du… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present Symphony, a compilation of 262 cosmological, cold-dark-matter-only zoom-in
simulations spanning four decades of host halo mass, from 10 11–10 15 M⊙. This …

Measuring the Milky Way mass distribution in the presence of the LMC

L Correa Magnus, E Vasiliev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ongoing interaction between the Milky Way (MW) and its largest satellite–the Large
Magellanic Cloud (LMC)–creates a significant perturbation in the distribution and kinematics …

Discovery of the Magellanic Stellar Stream Out to 100 kpc

V Chandra, RP Naidu, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Magellanic Stream (MS)—an enormous ribbon of gas spanning 140 of the
southern sky trailing the Magellanic Clouds—has been exquisitely mapped in the five …

Streams on FIRE: Populations of Detectable Stellar Streams in the Milky Way and FIRE

N Shipp, N Panithanpaisal, L Necib… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first detailed comparison of populations of dwarf galaxy stellar streams in
cosmological simulations and the Milky Way. In particular, we compare streams identified …

Snowmass2021 cosmic frontier white paper: dark matter physics from halo measurements

K Bechtol, S Birrer, FY Cyr-Racine, K Schutz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound
overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities …