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most citedThe Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (): Overview, Target Selection, Data Reduction, Validation, and Early Science

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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

The VMC survey -- LV. The coherent expansion of the SMC

S. Vijayasree, F. Niederhofer, M. -R. L. Cioni +8

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) exhibits significant kinematic disequilibrium due to interactions with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Here, we investigate the two-dimensional s…

astro-ph.GA2026

Epicyclic Density Variations in the Indus Stellar Stream

Yong Yang, Geraint F. Lewis, Ting S. Li +12

Longitudinal density fluctuations observed in stellar streams can result from gravitational interactions with massive perturbers in the Milky Way, such as dark matter subhalos. Ana…

astro-ph.GA2026

Overview of The SDSS-V Magellanic Genesis Survey

David L. Nidever, Danny Horta, Steven R. Majewski +14

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) Magellanic Genesis survey is a spectroscopic program designed to map the kinematic and chemical structure of the Magellanic Clouds using APO…

astro-ph.GA2025

Warped & Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in 3D using Red Clump stars

Slater J. Oden, David L. Nidever, Joshua Povick +18

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) are the Milky Way's nearest interacting galaxy pair, offering a unique laboratory for studying tidal effects on galactic disks.…

astro-ph.GA2025

: 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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters -- II. Kinematic structure of young and intermediate-age clusters

F. Niederhofer, L. Cullinane, D. Massari +14

In this paper, we explore the kinematic properties of a sample of 19 young (<1 Gyr) and intermediate-age (1-2.5 Gyr) massive star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Chemodynamics of BoötesI with : Revised Velocity Gradient, Dark Matter Density, and Galactic Chemical Evolution Constraints

Nathan R. Sandford, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov +14

We combine new spectroscopic observations of the ultra faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) Boötes I (Boo I) from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey () with 15 years…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Sifting for a Stream: The Morphology of the Stellar Stream

Benjamin Cohen, Alexander P. Ji, Peter S. Ferguson +18

Stellar streams are sensitive laboratories for understanding the small-scale structure in our Galaxy's gravitational field. Here, we analyze the morphology of the stellar st…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

The VMC survey -- LIV. The internal kinematics of the LMC with new VISTA observations

S. Vijayasree, F. Niederhofer, M. -R. L. Cioni +10

Context: Studying the internal kinematics of galaxies provides insights into their past evolution, current dynamics, and future trajectory. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as the…

astro-ph.GA2025

Kinematical Modeling of the Resolved Stellar Outskirts of M32: Constraints on Tidal Stripping Scenarios

Ivanna Escala, Douglas Grion Filho, Puragra Guhathakurta +8

As the only compact elliptical close enough to resolve into individual stars, the satellite dwarf galaxy M32 provides a unique opportunity for exploring the origins of such rare ga…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

: New insights from deep spectroscopic observations of the tidal tails of the globular clusters NGC 1261 and NGC 1904

Petra Awad, Ting S. Li, Denis Erkal +22

As globular clusters (GCs) orbit the Milky Way, their stars are tidally stripped forming tidal tails that follow the orbit of the clusters around the Galaxy. The morphology of thes…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Chemical Abundances in the Leiptr Stellar Stream: A Disrupted Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy?

Kaia R. Atzberger, Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji +11

Chemical abundances of stellar streams can be used to determine the nature of a stream's progenitor. Here we study the progenitor of the recently discovered Leiptr stellar stream,…

astro-ph.GA2024

Elemental Abundances in And XIX From Coadded Spectra

L. R. Cullinane, Karoline M. Gilbert, Ivanna Escala +6

With a luminosity similar to that of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal (dSph) systems like Sextans, but a spatial extent similar to that of ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs), Andromeda (And) X…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Power of High Precision Broadband Photometry: Tracing the Milky Way Density Profile with Blue Horizontal Branch stars in the Dark Energy Survey

Fengqing Yu, Ting S. Li, Joshua S. Speagle +9

Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars, excellent distant tracers for probing the Milky Way's halo density profile, are distinguished in the vs color space from ano…

astro-ph.GA2024

Multiple Populations and a CH Star Found in the 300S Globular Cluster Stellar Stream

Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji, Ting S. Li +14

Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) display chemical enrichment in a phenomenon called multiple stellar populations (MSPs). While the enrichment mechanism is not fully understood, th…

astro-ph.GA2023

TREX: Kinematic Characterisation of a High-Dispersion Intermediate-Age Stellar Component in M33

L. R. Cullinane, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta +7

The dwarf galaxy Triangulum (M33) presents an interesting testbed for studying stellar halo formation: it is sufficiently massive so as to have likely accreted smaller satellites,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

The 3D kinematics of stellar substructures in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Camila Navarrete, David S. Aguado, Vasily Belokurov +4

We report the 3D kinematics of 27 Mira-like stars in the northern, eastern and southern periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on Gaia proper motions and a dedicated…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 104 cited

: 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…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

The Magellanic Edges Survey IV. Complex tidal debris in the SMC outskirts

L. R. Cullinane, A. D. Mackey, G. S. Da Costa +2

We use data from the Magellanic Edges Survey (MagES) in combination with Gaia EDR3 to study the extreme southern outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), focussing on a field…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Resolved SPLASH Chemodynamics in Andromeda's PHAT Stellar Halo and Disk: On the Nature of the Inner Halo Along the Major Axis

Ivanna Escala, Amanda C. N. Quirk, Puragra Guhathakurta +5

Stellar kinematics and metallicity are key to exploring formation scenarios for galactic disks and halos. In this work, we characterized the relationship between kinematics and pho…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 65 cited

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…