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most citedThe substructures in the local stellar halo from Gaia and LAMOST

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astro-ph.GA2026

An Acceleration is Worth a Hundred Thousand Phase Space Measurements

Thomas Donlon, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Elena D'Onghia

It is now possible to directly measure the accelerations that arise from the distribution of (dark) matter in the Milky Way. These acceleration-based measurements of the local dark…

astro-ph.GA2025

Weighing the Milky Way's Satellite Galaxies Using Pulsar Accelerations

Thomas Donlon, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Jason A. S. Hunt

The properties of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way (MW) are useful for testing models of the formation of our Galaxy, and by extension various theories of cosmology. Recent ef…

astro-ph.GA2025

Mean Mass Density near the Sun from the Divergence Theorem and Pulsar Accelerations

Thomas Donlon, Lawrence M. Widrow, Sukanya Chakrabarti

We introduce a new, non-parametric method for estimating the mass enclosed within a sphere of arbitrary radius centered on the Sun. The method is based on the divergence theorem as…

astro-ph.GA2025

Chemical Components in the Virgo Overdensity and Hercules-Aquila Cloud: hints of more than one merger event in GSE-like debris

Haoyang Liu, Cuihua Du, Thomas Donlon +1

Using elemental abundances for 1.26 million K giants in the LAMOST DR8 value-added catalog, we analyze the chemical abundances of the Virgo Overdensity (VOD) and Hercules-Aquila Cl…

astro-ph.GA2024

The imprint of dark matter on the Galactic acceleration field

Arpit Arora, Robyn E. Sanderson, Sukanya Chakrabarti +6

Measurements of the accelerations of stars enabled by time-series extreme-precision spectroscopic observations, from pulsar timing, and from eclipsing binary stars in the Solar Nei…

astro-ph.GA2024

Galactic Structure From Binary Pulsar Accelerations: Beyond Smooth Models

Thomas Donlon, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Lawrence M. Widrow +3

We measure the line-of-sight accelerations of 26 binary pulsars due to the Milky Way's gravitational potential, and produce a 3-dimensional map of the acceleration field of the Gal…