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Rubin Observatory Reveals a Dust-Shrouded Halo Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
Aashay Pai, William Cerny, Andrew B. Pace +9
We present the discovery of the Milky Way satellite Rubin-GC1 (Rubin J1628-1735) using data from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Early Data Preview 2. The system was discov…
Discovery of the Distant, Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Aquarius IV with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Early Data Preview 2
William Cerny, Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner +16
We present the discovery of Aquarius IV (Rubin J22010234) -- the first ultra-faint Milky Way satellite to be identified using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This syste…
Boötes III is a Tidally Disrupting Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy on an Eccentric Polar Orbit
Ting S. Li, Denis Erkal, Andrew B. Pace +20
We present updated systemic properties of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Boötes III from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S). We identify 21 high-probability mem…
Forecasting Dark Matter Subhalo Constraints from Stellar Streams using Implicit Likelihood Inference
Tri Nguyen, Rutong Pei, Zhuofu Li +9
The evidence for dark matter (DM) remains compelling, although attempts to understand its particle nature remain inconclusive. One promising method to study DM is detecting DM subh…
: Tidal Disruption in Crater 2 and Formation of Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group
Guilherme Limberg, Alexander P. Ji, Ting S. Li +19
We present results of a spectroscopic campaign around the diffuse dwarf galaxy Crater 2 (Cra2) and its tidal tails as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey ($S^5…
DELVE-ing into the Milky Way's Globular Clusters: Assessing extra-tidal features in NGC 5897, NGC 7492, and testing detectability with deeper photometry
A. Chiti, K. Tavangar, P. S. Ferguson +22
Extra-tidal features around globular clusters (GCs) are tracers of their disruption, stellar stream formation, and their host's gravitational potential. However, these features rem…
The DECam Field of Streams: a deep view of the Milky Way halo
Peter Ferguson, Nora Shipp
We present a Field of Streams visualizing stellar structures in the Milky Way halo as viewed by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). We use - and -band imaging from the Dark Energ…
Flipping of the tidal tails of the Ophiuchus stream due to the decelerating Galactic bar
Yong Yang, Geraint F. Lewis, Denis Erkal +16
The Ophiuchus stellar stream presents a puzzle due to its complicated morphology, with a substructure perpendicular to the main track (spur), a broadened tail (fanning), and a shor…
Inferring dark matter subhalo properties from simulated subhalo-stream encounters
Tariq Hilmi, Denis Erkal, Sergey E. Koposov +9
In the cold dark matter paradigm, our Galaxy is predicted to contain >10000 dark matter subhaloes in the range which should be completely devoid of stars. Stella…
Signatures of tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
Xiaowei Ou, Anirudh Chiti, Nora Shipp +6
The Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) has long been hypothesized to be tidally disrupting, yet no conclusive evidence has been found for tidal disruption owing partly to diff…
Synthetic Gaia DR3 surveys from the FIRE cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
Tri Nguyen, Xiaowei Ou, Nondh Panithanpaisal +4
The third data release (DR3) of Gaia has provided a five-fold increase in the number of radial velocity measurements of stars, as well as a stark improvement in parallax and proper…
: Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6-D map of the Orphan-Chenab stream
Sergey E. Koposov, Denis Erkal, Ting S. Li +11
We present a 6-D map of the Orphan-Chenab (OC) stream by combining the data from Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey () and {\it Gaia}. We reconstruct the proper moti…
Streams on FIRE: Populations of Detectable Stellar Streams in the Milky Way and FIRE
Nora Shipp, Nondh Panithanpaisal, Lina Necib +18
We present the first detailed study comparing the populations of stellar streams in cosmological simulations to observed Milky Way dwarf galaxy streams. In particular, we compare s…
The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan-Chenab stream
Sophia Lilleengen, Michael S. Petersen, Denis Erkal +13
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…
: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams
Ting S. Li, Alexander P. Ji, Andrew B. Pace +19
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 Stel…
From the Fire: A Deeper Look at the Phoenix Stream
K. Tavangar, P. Ferguson, N. Shipp +64
We use six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey to perform a detailed photometric characterization of the Phoenix stellar stream, a 15-degree long, thin, dynamically cold, low…
Measuring the Mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Stellar Streams Observed by
Nora Shipp, Denis Erkal, Alex Drlica-Wagner +16
Stellar streams are excellent probes of the underlying gravitational potential in which they evolve. In this work, we fit dynamical models to five streams in the Southern Galactic…
Kinematics of Antlia 2 and Crater 2 from The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5)
Alexander P. Ji, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li +15
We present new spectroscopic observations of the diffuse Milky Way satellite galaxies Antlia 2 and Crater 2, taken as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5).…
: The destruction of a bright dwarf galaxy as revealed by the chemistry of the Indus stellar stream
T. T. Hansen, A. P. Ji, G. S. Da Costa +13
The recently discovered Indus stellar stream exhibits a diverse chemical signature compared to what is found for most other streams due to the abundances of two outlier stars, Indu…
DELVE-ing into the Jet: a thin stellar stream on a retrograde orbit at 30 kpc
Peter Ferguson, Nora Shipp, Alex Drlica-Wagner +20
We perform a detailed photometric and astrometric analysis of stars in the Jet stream using data from the first data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE) DR…
The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey: Overview and First Data Release
A. Drlica-Wagner, J. L. Carlin, D. L. Nidever +67
The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey program on the 4-m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DELVE seeks to…
The tidal remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster
Zhen Wan, Geraint F. Lewis, Ting S. Li +18
Globular clusters are some of the oldest bound stellar structures observed in the Universe. They are ubiquitous in large galaxies and are believed to trace intense star formation e…
Discovery of Extended Tidal Tails around the Globular Cluster Palomar 13
Nora Shipp, Adrian Price-Whelan, Kiyan Tavangar +2
We use photometry from the DECam Legacy Survey to detect candidate tidal tails extending ~5 deg on either side of the Palomar 13 globular cluster. The tails are aligned with the pr…
Broken into Pieces: ATLAS and Aliqa Uma as One Single Stream
Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov, Denis Erkal +17
We present the first spectroscopic measurements of the ATLAS and Aliqa Uma streams from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (), in combination with the photometri…