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The Pristine survey XXIX. Data Release 2: Photometric metallicities for 15 millions stars down to
Zhen Yuan, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Nicolas F. Martin +15
Tailored narrow-band photometric observations are an efficient way to measure the metallicity of Milky Way stars. The Pristine survey has been mapping the northern sky since 2015 u…
Characterizing the disruption of Böotes III: a missing link in the Galactic halo?
Jaclyn Jensen, Daniel A. Boyea, Alan W. McConnachie +14
The Böotes III (Boo3) dwarf galaxy has long been suspected of being the progenitor of Styx, a ~50°-long stellar stream that was simultaneously discovered in the same region of sky.…
Tracing the very early disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the distant Milky Way halo
Manuel Bayer, Else Starkenburg, Akshara Viswanathan +3
Current models predict that at distances beyond 80 kpc in the Milky Way halo, we can find the earliest escaped stars from the merging Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. However, observation…
The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream
Kim A. Venn, Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin +32
Stellar streams, remnants of compact star systems stretched out by the tidal forces of the Milky Way, offer a unique way to study stellar populations that formed billions of years…
The Pristine survey: XXVII. The extremely metal-poor stream C-19 stretches over more than 100 degrees
Zhen Yuan, Tadafumi Matsuno, Tatyana Sitnova +14
The discovery of the most metal-poor stream, C-19, provides us with a fossil record of a stellar structure born very soon after the Big Bang. In this work, we search for new C-19 m…
A slow spin to win -- the gradual evolution of the proto-Galaxy to the old disc
Akshara Viswanathan, Danny Horta, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +1
Observational studies are identifying stars thought to be remnants from the earliest stages of the hierarchical mass assembly of the Milky Way, referred to as the proto-Galaxy. We…
The Pristine Survey -- XXVII. Journey to the Galactic outskirts -- Mapping the outer halo red giant stars down to the very metal-poor end
Akshara Viswanathan, Amanda Byström, Else Starkenburg +14
Context: In the context of Galactic archaeology, the outer halo remains relatively unexplored with respect to its metallicity distribution, merger debris, and the abundance of know…
The Pristine survey XXIV: The Galactic underdogs -- Dynamic tales of a Milky Way metal-poor population
Isaure González Rivera de La Vernhe, Vanessa Hill, Georges Kordopatis +12
Through the chemodynamical characterisation of metal-poor stars, one can efficiently probe the early history of the Milky Way. We aim at decontaminating a sample of 3M giant…
The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) IX. The largest detailed chemical analysis of very metal-poor stars in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy
Federico Sestito, Sara Vitali, Paula Jofre +16
The most metal-poor stars provide valuable insights into the early chemical enrichment history of a system, carrying the chemical imprints of the first generations of supernovae. T…
Exoplanets Across Galactic Stellar Populations with PLATO: Estimating Exoplanet Yields Around FGK Stars for the Thin Disk, Thick Disk and Stellar Halo
Christopher Boettner, Akshara Viswanathan, Pratika Dayal
This study aims to assess the potential of the upcoming PLATO mission to investigate exoplanet populations around stars in diverse Galactic environments, specifically focusing on t…
The Pristine survey: XXV. The very metal-poor Galaxy: Chemodynamics through the follow-up of the Pristine-Gaia synthetic catalogue
Akshara Viswanathan, Zhen Yuan, Anke Ardern-Arentsen +27
The Pristine-\textit{Gaia} synthetic catalogue provides reliable photometric metallicities for 30 million FGK stars using the Pristine survey model and Gaia XP spectra. We pe…
On the metal-poor edge of the Milky Way "thin disc"
Emma Fernández-Alvar, Georges Kordopatis, Vanessa Hill +9
The emergence of the disc in our Galaxy and the relation of the thick and thin disc formation and evolution is still a matter of debate. The chemo-dynamical characterization of dis…
Swarming in stellar streams: Unveiling the structure of the Jhelum stream with ant colony-inspired computation
Petra Awad, Marco Canducci, Eduardo Balbinot +8
The halo of the Milky Way galaxy hosts multiple dynamically coherent substructures known as stellar streams that are remnants of tidally disrupted systems such as globular clusters…
Charting the Galactic acceleration field II. A global mass model of the Milky Way from the STREAMFINDER Atlas of Stellar Streams detected in Gaia DR3
Rodrigo Ibata, Khyati Malhan, Wassim Tenachi +17
We present an atlas and follow-up spectroscopic observations of 87 thin stream-like structures detected with the STREAMFINDER algorithm in Gaia DR3, of which 29 are new discoveries…
Could very low-metallicity stars with rotation-dominated orbits have been shepherded by the bar?
Zhen Yuan, Chengdong Li, Nicolas F. Martin +11
The most metal-poor stars (e.g. [Fe/H] ) are the ancient fossils from the early assembly epoch of our Galaxy, very likely before the formation of the thick disc. Recent s…
Gaia's brightest very metal-poor (VMP) stars. Metallicity catalogue of a thousand VMP stars from Gaia's radial velocity spectrometer spectra
Akshara Viswanathan, Else Starkenburg, Tadafumi Matsuno +10
Context. Gaia DR3 has offered the scientific community a remarkable dataset of approximately one million spectra acquired with the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) in the Calcium…
The Pristine survey -- XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry
Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg, Zhen Yuan +38
We used the spectro-photometric information of ~219 million stars from Gaia's DR3 to calculate synthetic, narrow-band, metallicity-sensitive CaHK magnitudes that mimic the observat…
Hidden deep in the halo: selection of a reduced proper motion halo catalogue and mining retrograde streams in the velocity space
Akshara Viswanathan, Else Starkenburg, Helmer H. Koppelman +3
The Milky Way halo is one of the few galactic haloes that provides a unique insight into galaxy formation by resolved stellar populations. Here, we present a catalogue of 47…
Antaeus: a retrograde group of tidal debris in the Milky Way's disk plane
Pierre-Antoine Oria, Wassim Tenachi, Rodrigo Ibata +5
We present the discovery of a wide retrograde moving group in the disk plane of the Milky Way using action-angle coordinates derived from the \textit{Gaia} DR3 catalog. The structu…
Typhon: a polar stream from the outer halo raining through the Solar neighborhood
Wassim Tenachi, Pierre-Antoine Oria, Rodrigo Ibata +5
We report on the discovery in the Gaia DR3 astrometric and spectroscopic catalog of a new polar stream that is found as an over-density in action space. This structure is unique as…
The Pristine survey -- XVII. The C-19 stream is dynamically hot and more extended than previously thought
Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata +22
The C-19 stream is the most metal poor stellar system ever discovered, with a mean metallicity . Its low metallicity dispersion ( 0.18 at…
The Pristine survey -- XVI. The metallicity of 26 stellar streams around the Milky Way detected with the STREAMFINDER in Gaia EDR3
Nicolas F. Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Else Starkenburg +21
We use the photometric metallicities provided by the panoramic Pristine survey to study the veracity and derive the metallicities of the numerous stellar streams found by the appli…
The Pristine survey XIII: Uncovering the very metal-poor tail of the thin disc
Emma Fernández-Alvar, Georges Kordopatis, Vanessa Hill +9
We evaluate the rotational velocity of stars observed by the Pristine survey towards the Galactic anticentre, spanning a wide range of metallicities from the extremely metal-poor r…
A definitive merger-AGN connection at z~0 with CFIS: mergers have an excess of AGN and AGN hosts are more frequently disturbed
Sara L. Ellison, Akshara Viswanathan, David R. Patton +4
The question of whether galaxy mergers are linked to the triggering of active galactic nuclei (AGN) continues to be a topic of considerable debate. The issue can be broken down int…