papers
Publications (3)
astro-ph.GA2018
Vertical waves in the solar neighbourhood in Gaia DR2
Morgan Bennett, Jo Bovy
The vertical structure and dynamics of stars in our local Galactic neighbourhood contains much information about the local distribution of visible and dark matter and of perturbati…
astro-ph.GA2021
Did Sgr cause the vertical waves in the solar neighbourhood?
Morgan Bennett, Jo Bovy
The vertical distribution of stars in the solar neighbourhood is not in equilibrium but contains a wave signature in both density and velocity space originating from a perturbation…
astro-ph.GA2022
Exploring the Sgr-Milky-Way-disc interaction using high resolution N-body simulations
Morgan Bennett, Jo Bovy, Jason A. S. Hunt
The ongoing merger of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy with the Milky Way is believed to strongly affect the dynamics of the Milky Way's disc. We present a suite of 13 -body s…