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astro-ph.GA2015★ 66 cited
Shepherding Tidal Debris with the Galactic Bar: The Ophiuchus Stream
Kohei Hattori, Denis Erkal, Jason L. Sanders
The dynamics of stellar streams in rotating barred potentials is explained for the first time. Naturally, neighbouring stream stars reach pericentre at slightly different times. In…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited
Vertical kinematics of the thick disc at 4.5 < R < 9.5 kpc
Kohei Hattori, Gerard Gilmore
We explored a method to reconstruct the distribution function of the Galactic thick disc within the action space where nearby thick-disc stars are distributed. By applying this met…