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Weighing the stellar constituents of the Galactic halo with APOGEE red giant stars
J. Ted Mackereth, Jo Bovy
The stellar mass in the halo of the Milky Way is notoriously difficult to determine, owing to the paucity of its stars in the solar neighbourhood. With tentative evidence from $\it…
Searching for Solar Siblings in APOGEE and DR2 with N-body Simulations
Jeremy J. Webb, Natalie Price-Jones, Jo Bovy +4
We make use of APOGEE and data to identify stars that are consistent with being born in the same association or star cluster as the Sun. We limit our analysis to stars that…
Life in the fast lane: a direct view of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way's bar
Jo Bovy, Henry W. Leung, Jason A. S. Hunt +3
Studies of the ages, abundances, and motions of individual stars in the Milky Way provide one of the best ways to study the evolution of disk galaxies over cosmic time. The formati…
He abundances in disc galaxies -- I. Predictions from cosmological chemodynamical simulations
Fiorenzo Vincenzo, Andrea Miglio, Chiaki Kobayashi +2
We investigate how the stellar and gas-phase He abundances evolve as functions of time within simulated star-forming disc galaxies with different star formation histories. We make…
Signatures of resonance and phase mixing in the Galactic disc
Jason A. S. Hunt, Mathew W. Bub, Jo Bovy +3
Gaia DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the kinematics of stars in the Solar neighbourhood, and has highlighted the degree of features in the Galactic di…
A galaxy's accretion history unveiled from its integrated spectrum
Alina Boecker, Ryan Leaman, Glenn van de Ven +3
We present a new method of quantifying a galaxy's accretion history from its integrated spectrum alone. Using full spectral fitting and calibrated regularization techniques we show…
Dynamical heating across the Milky Way disc using APOGEE and
J. Ted Mackereth, Jo Bovy, Henry W. Leung +14
The kinematics of the Milky Way disc as a function of age are well measured at the solar radius, but have not been studied over a wider range of Galactocentric radii. Here, we meas…