5 papers
Alignment of the Milky Way and M31 with their cosmic environment. New insights from constrained Local Group simulations
Hanneke C. Woudenberg, Amina Helmi, Ewoud Wempe +4
Using constrained simulations that reproduce the observed Milky Way–Andromeda configuration, the authors examine how the surrounding Local Sheet influences the shapes, spins, and d…
The metal-poor tail of the APOGEE survey I. Uncovering [Fe/H] < -2.5 stars from the inner Galaxy to the Magellanic Clouds
M. Montelius, E. Starkenburg, H. Woudenberg +9
In the search for metal-poor stars, large spectroscopic surveys are an invaluable tool. However, the spectra of metal-poor stars can be difficult to analyse because of the relative…
Evidence of a massive accretion event 1.8 billion years before the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger
Davide Massari, Chiara Zerbinati, Cristiano Fanelli +15
The merger history of the Galaxy has been traced back firmly to redshift 2 (10 Billion years ago). While evidence for the existence of at least one more significant merger before t…
Chemical characterisation of small substructures in the local stellar halo
Emma Dodd, Tadafumi Matsuno, Amina Helmi +5
The local stellar halo of the Milky Way is known to contain the debris from accreted dwarf galaxies and globular clusters, in the form of stellar streams and over-densities in the…
On the chaos induced by the Galactic bar on the orbits of nearby halo stars
Hanneke C. Woudenberg, Amina Helmi
Many of the Milky Way's accreted substructures have been discovered and studied in the space of energy , and angular momentum components and . In a static axisym…