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most citedThe Great Escape: Discovery of a nearby 1700 km/s star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*

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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 Metallicity Distribution of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Segue 1

Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji, Joshua D. Simon +6

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs; stellar masses ) offer unique insights into early chemical evolution in low-mass systems. However, interpreting their metalli…

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.GA2025

Not-so-heavy metal(s): Chemical Abundances in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I

Mairéad E Heiger, Alexander P Ji, Ting S Li +18

We present detailed chemical abundances of the brightest star in each of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I using high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Alice M. Luna, Alexander P. Ji, Anirudh Chiti +6

Star formation in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs, ) is suppressed by reionization, but may not be completely quenched. The metallicity distribution function (MD…

astro-ph.GA2025

Chemical Abundances in the Metal-Poor Globular Cluster ESO 280-SC06: A Formerly Massive, Tidally Disrupted Globular Cluster

Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji, Jandrie Rodriguez +6

We present the first high-resolution abundance study of ESO 280-SC06, one of the least luminous and most metal-poor gravitationally bound Milky Way globular clusters. Using Magella…

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

Eridanus III and DELVE 1: Carbon-rich Primordial Star Clusters or the Smallest Dwarf Galaxies?

Joshua D. Simon, Ting S. Li, Alexander P. Ji +8

We present spectroscopy of the ultra-faint Milky Way satellites Eridanus III (Eri III) and DELVE 1. We identify eight member stars in each satellite and place non-constraining uppe…

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

Stellar Metallicities from DECam -band Photometry: A Study of Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Yue Pan, Anirudh Chiti, Alex Drlica-Wagner +5

We conducted an in-depth analysis of candidate member stars located in the peripheries of three ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy satellites of the Milky Way: Boötes I (Boo1), Boötes…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

Chemical Diversity on Small Scales -- Abundance Analysis of the Tucana V Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy

Terese T. Hansen, Joshua D. Simon, Ting S. Li +5

The growing number of Milky Way satellites detected in recent years has introduced a new focus for stellar abundance analysis. Abundances of stars in satellites have been used to p…

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★ 22 cited

Enrichment by Extragalactic First Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Anirudh Chiti, Mohammad Mardini, Guilherme Limberg +8

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the Milky Way's most massive satellite galaxy, which only recently (~2 billion years ago) fell into our Galaxy. Since stellar atmospheres preser…

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.GA2019★ 133 cited

The Great Escape: Discovery of a nearby 1700 km/s star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*

Sergey E. Koposov, Douglas Boubert, Ting S. Li +17

We present the serendipitous discovery of the fastest Main Sequence hyper-velocity star (HVS) by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5). The star S5-HVS1 is a $\sim…